The London Mail reports that lay Christian street preacher, Michael Overd, was acquitted last Thursday by Taunton Deane Magistrates court of charges of directing threatening or abusive language at Craig Manning and Craig Nichol, a gay couple. Apparently Overd had a previous altercation with the couple in 2010. When he saw them again in July 2011, he said: "I have already told these two sinners over here that they are going to burn in hell." Nichol asked who he was to judge him. Overd replied that it is God's words. Overd's attorney argued that Overd was merely reciting a passage from 1 Corinthians that reads: "Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor homosexuals nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God."
