VIDEO: Toronto LGBT crowd swarmed a pastor and the pastor was arrested

Police arrested David Lynn of Christ’s Forgiveness Ministries early Tuesday evening and charged him with disturbing the peace. A crowd protesting his message surrounded him and his fellow preachers causing a massive scene.

Members of Torch of Christ ministries were also present and posted a full video of the incident on YouTube, while Christ’s Forgiveness Ministries posted a seven-minute edited version.

The edited video shows Lynn using a microphone to declare he is “coming out as a Christian” and asking several people if they will “tolerate” him. They refuse.

“We have people who can’t say they even tolerate me, and I haven’t even said anything yet,” Lynn says as he’s surrounded people holding rainbow flags and pro-LGBTQ banners and signs.

Lynn declares he doesn’t hate anyone, that some people hate Christians, and that some people want him to “stay in the closet” as a Christian. He can be seen followed around, elbowed, and yelled at.

The video shows Lynn telling the Church and Wellesley neighbourhood’s Sergeant Henry Dyck, who is openly homosexual, he has a right to preach on the sidewalk and objecting to his arrest. Dyck responded to the camera, “We arrested a man for disturbing the peace after he was allegedly yelling derogatory comments.”

Toronto Police Services are now investigating whether the preacher’s actions amount to a hate crime.

In conversation with CityNews, Dyck claims “The difficulty becomes when that expression on loudspeaker and using screaming and insulting language results in people responding in a negative way.” Lynn, who has a different version of the story. “All I said was ‘God loves you, there’s hope for everybody.’ I didn’t do anything illegal, I was within my rights of the law. I didn’t go there to provoke anybody,” he claims.

Lynn will appear in court on July 10.