Scotland venue cancels anti-gay South African pastor’s event
Angus Buchan
The venue in Scotland that was set to host a talk by homophobic South African pastor Angus Buchan has cancelled the event, following a campaign by LGBTI activists.
KaleidoScot reports that Live Borders, the organisation that manages bookings for the Volunteer Hall in the town of Galashiels, will no longer allow the meeting to take place on the premises.
The decision was taken after it was lobbied by Susan Hart, Chair of the Scottish Borders LGBT Equality group.
“We were very pleased that Scottish Borders [Council] worked with us to ensure there is no place for Pastor Angus Buchan to preach his messages of intolerance,” she said.
“Spreading messages of hate towards LGBTI people, women and children only can harm rural communities like ours and cause division.”
Hart argued that Buchan’s views that LGBTI people are diseased and can be cured, and that men should dominate women cross “the line between freedom of speech and hate speech”.
While Hope Church, which invited Buchan to talk, may still find another venue to host the preacher in the area, Hart said that, if it went ahead, the 22 August event would likely be faced with protests.
Buchan, a Zimbabwe-born farmer and evangelist of Scottish descent who now lives in KwaZulu-Natal, is known for his conservative views on gender roles and his condemnation of homosexuality.
He believes that homosexuality can be “cured” through prayer and that same-sex marriage is sinful. Buchan, who attracts thousands of men to his so-called Mighty Men Conferences, also preaches that men should rule the home and teach their wives to know their place.
Despite the cancelation, the page promoting “An Evening with Angus Buchan” and Buchan’s own website still indicate Volunteer Hall as the venue.
The event is part of Buchan’s UK tour. He is also set to make appearances in England, Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland and will hold a three-day Mighty Men Conference in North Yorkshire.
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What a disgrace, trying to block a man of God preaching the truth. No matter how you try to stop the truth from being preach, the truth will always comes out. Homosexuals wants to live their sinful life, and if a preacher dare to preach against it they must be banned from visiting countries and having services. Nobody can stop the truth, so wake up and smell the roses he will still preach on Scottish soil, the venue may change but the Word of God and the truth will never change. We are praying that this crusade will draw masses and that the truth will be preached at all times. Because we don’t agree with the sinful lifestyle of homosexuals does not mean we hate them.
Although you are entitled to your archaic, hateful, narrow-minded and impious opinion, Peter, could you please, before littering the web with your profanities, check your grammar and use of tenses. As a reverend, supposedly with a suitable academic qualification, one would expect your command and use of the English language to be nothing less than perfect. And perhaps a little check on your punctuation as well?
Thank you Marlu.
Angus, dis nie nodig om vir my of die gay gemeenskap te kom preek nie. Ons weet wat reg en verkeerd is. Ek het my verhouding met God en ek het Jesus aangeneem, gedoop en is ook met die Heilige Gees vervul. Ek is gay vandat ek op learskool was, en my verhouding met God is sterker na ek uit die kas geklim het. So, ek en jy aanbid dieselde God. Jy mag my nie veroordeel nie (my Bybel sê so) en ek ken ook al die Bybel verse oor gay wees, maar dis ek wat eendag voor God gaan staan met my lewe. Waarom konsentreer jy nie eerder op dinge wat saakmaak soos Jesus gedoen het nie en los die gay mense uit. Jy weet, jy dryf meer gay mense weg van God want hulle wil nie ń Christen genoem word nie a.g.v. jou. Ek hoop jy lees hierdie en sal eendag persoonlik met jou wil gesels en jou bietjie in ń gay persoon se skoene wil plaas. Dit is hel want mense verstoot jou. Jy het geen idee wat ons deurmaak nie. God’s rykste seën word jou toegebid.
I am South African and I high-5 Scotland for this.
The worst description of Angus Buchan i have heard. I have seen him a couple of times, one of the most loving people ive seen. He will get people who stand up against him because he preaches the truth…. he does not try an sugar coat everything. His love for his wife Jill is also something to stand in wonder of. Yes he does preach against homosexuality because in the bible it does say its wrong. You might not agree with it but that his job to preach the truth. HE does not hate gay people in fact he love the people, but he is rather against the sin of being gay.
Matt 10:22 -You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved
2 Tim 3 : 12 -In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
No wonder the “reverend” cannot string a sentence together! As an ex-South African, proudly, having made the UK my home all of 25 years ago, I was blissfully unaware of pastor Oscar Peter Bougardt’s existence until now. Having researched the internet to establish just who this nincompoop really is, I have now discovered that he has no officially recognised academical qualifications and thus cannot claim the title of reverend. Calvary H.O.P.E Ministries is just some ‘Micky Mouse’ outfit operating under the cloak of religion, which has sadly drawn a following of the feeble-minded. The only possible reference to UWMA, where the pastor is apparently a BTH student, came up as the University of Wisconsin–Madison. This establishment does not offer BA Theology as a baccalaureate degree with majors in this discipline, based on the assumption that this might be what BTH refers to. So, all in all, a bunch of lies, and that coming from a man professing to ‘preach the Word of God and the truth’ – deceitful and sacrilegious! The fact is, every time we do or say something that gives others a false representation of the glory, holiness, authority, and character of God, we commit blasphemy. Every time we misrepresent our position as children of God, we are damaging His reputation. Fortunately, Jesus forgives even the sin of blasphemy. So pastor Bougardt, stay off our websites and out of our lives, as we can also be sure to receive forgiveness, if, in fact, what we were born to be could be classified as ‘sinful’.
I was going to reply to this post, but then I was reminded that the spirits of the underworld want us to be upset by what is happening, because it creates confusion and anger. Two points we as Christians should not be practicing, practice LOVE as Jesus did in everything you do. The trials will come and the tests are for others, if you comment negatively then it was for you to and if I asked you to think about it did you pass the test. Show love even to our enemies because there are spirits in high places and we can’t do anything without our Lord Jesus Christ.
Your reporting is so sad and uneducated. Angus Buchan is not homophobic. He is a man of God sharing Biblical truth – one of the humblest people you will ever meet. He has a heart for the lost in life and is merely sharing what God’s Word (The Bible) says so that people one day when they stand before their maker, as we all will, cannot say “I didn’t know”. Watch one or two of his YouTube videos before indulging in really poor reporting.
People who follow those sham holy fellows must have a big hole in the center of their lives. I myself am a happy lifelong atheist and I pity those poor sods who listen to The ravings of those loones as they preach about something that’s nonexistent never existed and will never exist cept in the minds of the foolish and the gullible . Good day and thanks for reading my thoughts people
Gary, I would just like to know what your logic is. Buchan is sharing the biblical truth and he is not homophobic, but the bible is in fact homophobic. This makes absolutely no sense. Biblical truth also condones that women be treated as inferior to men. The 10th commandment groups wives together with the man’s ox and ass – possessions – as things that shall not coveted, and Buchan’s Mighty Men conferences proves this. Why doesn’t he have Mighty People Of God conferences? He is a bigot and a sexist. David, something that I also cannot understand, why must everyone practice love, presumably towards our enemies, while Jesus and God, who are the same thing, practice condemnation towards their enemies? How, thus, is anyone able to do what Jesus does? One thing that I actually have to agree with you on is that Buchan is a man of God. The 2 of them share the same bigoted, egotistical attitude. Also, in’t it about time that Christians stopped blaming evil spirits and other nonsense for trouble in their, and other’s, lives and accept responsibility for themselves. Andropov, I agree with you completely.