A street corner preacher was arrested and locked up for seven hours for saying that according to the Bible homosexuality is a sin.
Mr McAlpine has been charged under the Public Order Act of 1986, an act designed to deal with football yobbos but which has now been deployed to shut down those who would quote Holy Scripture in public.
How long before St Paul's Epistles to the Corinthians and the Romans are banned as offensive?
Can't be too far away if this incident is any anything to go by.
Dale McAlpine was handing out leaflets to shoppers when he told a passer-by and a gay police community support officer that, as a Christian, he believed homosexuality was one of a number of sins that go against the word of God.
Mr Mcalpine said that he did not repeat his remarks on homosexuality when he preached from the top of a stepladder after his leafleting.
But he has been told that police officers are alleging they heard him making his remarks to a member of the public in a loud voice that could be overheard by others.
Mr McAlpine has been charged under the Public Order Act of 1986, an act designed to deal with football yobbos but which has now been deployed to shut down those who would quote Holy Scripture in public.
How long before St Paul's Epistles to the Corinthians and the Romans are banned as offensive?
Can't be too far away if this incident is any anything to go by.