A Glasgow church minister who heckled Jeremy Corbyn and wrote a series of homophobic and anti-gay marriage messages on social media has been suspended.
The Church of Scotland today announced Rev Richard Cameron has been administratively suspended after he hit the headlines for his controversial antics on Wednesday.
The Scotstoun Parish Church minister stood by a series of his questionable tweets after shouting Islamaphobic remarks at the Labour leader at a community centre.
Cameron tweeted that "homosexual behaviour is a sin" and said "allowing children to change their gender is wicked".
When questioned, Cameron, whose Twitter handle is Pastor Richard @thebiblestrue, told the Daily Record he retweets the posts because he shares the same views.
In September he tweeted: "Christ has the power to help and change anyone. Obviously many gays hate this because want to carry on in their perversion."
On Tuesday he retweeted a post which read: "How can raising a boy as a girl not be child abuse? It is emotional, mental and sexual abuse surely?
"We must get serious about praying for a society, such as ours, which has plumbed such depths in parenting and care for our children. #prayer #children.'
When shown this tweet Cameron confirmed this was his account and said: "I didn't write that but I retweeted it. I stand by it and absolutely agree with what it says."
He also shared a series of controversial views on Islam, describing terrorism as "a problem Islam needs to deal with", a full face veil as "oppressive and unBritish" and the prophet Muhammad as "a violent man".
Cameron approached the Labour leader when he visited the Heart of Scotstoun community centre on his on his 48-hour tour of Scotland and branded him a 'terrorist sympathiser', and said 'I thought you'd be wearing your Islamic Jihad scarf, Mr Corbyn'.
Cameron said he had no regrets over how he handled the situation and branded Corbyn a 'dangerous' man.
A Church of Scotland spokesperson said: “In accordance with our procedures Rev Richard Cameron has been administratively suspended.
"This is to allow us to carry out an enquiry in relation to the incident which took place earlier this week and the subsequent complaints about his social media use.”
