A Christian preacher who was jailed in connection with an argument after a gay man asked him about the Bible’s teaching on homosexuality has been cleared of any wrongdoing on appeal. Gordon Larmour was preaching in July 2016 when the young man posed his question on Bible teaching. Apparently enraged by the answer, the man chased Lamour until police intervened and arrested the preacher on suspicion of “threatening or abusive behaviour, aggravated by prejudice relating to sexual orientation” and “assault aggravated by prejudice relating to sexual orientation”. Lamour was subsequently jailed for one night. However, an appeal against this jailing heard from a colleague of the young man that Larmour had in no way assaulted the man or used homophobic terms against him. “I had simply answered his question and told him about Adam and Eve and heaven and hell,” Larmour said. “Preaching from the Bible is not a crime.”