Street Preaching Leads To Arrest

A UK street preacher has been arrested under a law meant to prosecute violent soccer fans for hooliganism. Police say that Dale Mcalpine was loudly proclaiming anti-gay sentiments in a shopping district; Mcalpine says that he was merely handing out leaflets and engaging passers-by in conversation. Onlookers worry that Christians are being prosecuted for proclaiming what they see as Biblical truths.

Mcalpine says he had a quiet one-on-one conversation about sin with a woman who had been passing by the spot where he had set up a stepladder outside a cell phone store, reported U.K. newspaper The Daily Mail in a May 1 article. During that chat, he told the woman that the Bible condemns as sinful an array of behaviors, including homosexual contact. However, says Mcalpine, he did not proclaim any anti-gay speech as he preached loudly from his perch on the stepladder.

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