Free speech upheld in Inverness
3 February 2012
An attempt to convict a street evangelist of behaving in an abusive manner in spreading the gospel in Inverness city centre has failed.
Sheriff Ian Abercrombie said that Kenneth Macdonald had no case to answer and acquitted Macdonald of all charges.
He was accused of causing alarm to a woman and her children by saying that they are going to hell. Kenneth Macdonald says that he would never say that to anyone; rather, he tells them: “Don’t go to hell!”
It was not clear during court proceedings who was the original complainant. It is a feature of the persecution of Christians that complainers go to the police and leave the Procurator Fiscal to promote their accusation on their behalf. In this case, the Fiscal was hung out to dry by lack of corroborating evidence.
Hopefully the police will begin to realise that they are being used as pawns in the humanist campaign against Christianity. The humanists cannot win the argument with words, so they use the force of law.
The public gallery in the court room was well filled with supportive Christians.
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