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Podcast: Rachel Poulain Interviews a Street Preacher Stopped By Police

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Grant Edwards is a Whangarei Street preacher who was threatened with arrest for the first time after many years of preaching on the streets of New Zealand. He claims that the police breached the NZ Bill of Rights 1990 s14 and s15
Free Speech Coalition spokesperson Rachel Poulain interviews Grant Edwards. Grant is a street preacher with more than 20 years of preaching experience. Recently Grant was preaching on a public street in Whangarei where he was stopped by the police and threatened with being charged under the Summary Offences Act for disorderly behaviour.

Grant opens up about his views on free speech, persons of different faiths and views and the current political climate that is increasingly aggressive against preachers in New Zealand.

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