#  Pastor Who Said Floods are God’s Punishment for Homosexuality Arrested on Tarmac

     Details    Alex Bollinger   ![logo](https://www.citywatchla.com//templates/ja_teline_v/images/logo.png)         September 30 2021      [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Sept-2021/078l.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/guest-words/22682-pastor-who-said-floods-are-god-s-punishment-for-homosexuality-arrested-on-tarmac)

  [GUEST WORDS](https://www.citywatchla.com/guest-words)   - [  Previous Article **The Oculus Generation is a Metaphor for our Moment** ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22721:the-oculus-generation-is-a-metaphor-for-our-moment&catid=378)
- [  Next Article **Walmartland: How US Stores Colonizing Mexico Are Displacing Local Culture** ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22441:walmartland-how-us-stores-colonizing-mexico-are-displacing-local-culture&catid=378)

  ###### Typography

- [](# "Smaller Font")  ****Smaller** **Small** **Medium** **Big** **Bigger****  [](# "Bigger Font")
- [](# "Previous Font Style")  ****Default** **Helvetica** **Segoe** **Georgia** **Times****  [](# "Next Font Style")

- [ Reading Mode](# "Reading Mode")

> <a class="a2a_button_facebook"></a><a class="a2a_button_twitter"></a><a class="a2a_button_email"></a><a class="a2a_button_print"></a>[](https://www.addtoany.com/share)
>
> LGBTG NATION - A viciously anti-LGBTQ pastor was arrested on the tarmac as he exited a plane in Canada after touring the U.S. to spread COVID-19 misinformation on a contempt of court charge.

 Cave of Adullam Pastor Artur Pawlowski was taken into custody by police at the Calgary International Airport yesterday afternoon, returning from a speaking tour in the U.S. that included meeting Eric Trump and an appearance on Fox News.

He was previously arrested this past May for allegedly violating pandemic restrictions at his church, which he transformed into a publicity tour in the U.S.

Authorities have not said exactly why he is facing contempt of court charges. [His lawyer Sarah Miller told *Global News* that](https://globalnews.ca/news/8225866/calgary-artur-pawlowski-arrested/) it was related to a June 5 offense. Attorney Ron Filipkowski suggested that it could be connected to his May arrest and subsequent departure from the country.

Pawlowski is notorious for his anti-LGBTQ extremism, [writing on the Street Church website](https://www.streetchurch.ca/journals/flooding-the-gentle-reminder/) that the 2013 Alberta Floods were God’s punishment for the “perversions of homosexuality which includes the walking out the pride of their abominations in the streets of our cities.”

[Soon after](https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/alberta-pc-leadership-candidates-ties-to-anti-gay-evangelicals-sparks-scandal), a local conservative leader was embroiled in controversy for getting his picture taken with Pawlowski and a message that said gay people “are not ashamed to declare the name of their master (Satan) and in the same way not concerned with provoking greatly the wrath of the Living God.”

In 2017, [he organized a “Defense of Christianity”](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/violent-protest-calgary-city-hall-1.4207879) rally that turned violent. Pawlawski invited an anti-gay activist who was prosecuted under Canada’s hate speech laws for distributing pamphlets entitled “Sodomites in our Public Schools.”

He tried to organize another rally with the same anti-gay activist in 2019 and told [the *Calgary Star* in an interview](https://www.thestar.com/calgary/2019/09/23/lgbtq-student-club-demands-calgary-cancel-event-at-city-hall-over-pastors-bigotry.html) that he opposes the “perversion” of homosexuality and said that LGBTQ people are “sinners.” He also denounced “homo-fascism.”

This past year, Pawlowski has been more focused on opposing measures to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, [organizing anti-mask rallies](https://edmonton.citynews.ca/2021/02/27/anti-restriction-protest-in-calgary-one-week-after-similar-rally-in-edmonton/), refusing to follow COVID-19 restrictions at his church, and calling the public health inspector and police “[Nazis](https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/police-leave-church-issue-no-tickets-after-preacher-yells-at-them-to-leave)” and “[Gestapo](https://www.christianpost.com/news/canadian-pastor-attacks-on-worship-elicit-memories-of-communism.html)” for trying to enforce pandemic restrictions on Easter.

That Easter confrontation led to [his first appearance on Fox News](https://www.foxnews.com/media/how-dare-they-pastor-who-confronted-police-on-easter-shares-his-story), where he compared pandemic restrictions to communism in Poland.

“Police officers could break into your house five in the morning, they could beat you up, torture, they could arrest you for no matter what reason they would come up with,” he said about growing up in Poland. The police who visited his church in Canada didn’t beat anyone up or torture anyone, and their reasons for entering his church were clear.

[This past May](https://globalnews.ca/news/7845763/calgary-police-covid-19-violation-arrests/), Pawlowski and his brother Dawid Pawlowski were arrested and now face several charges in connection to organizing an illegal in-person gathering, with police saying that he “chose to ignore requirements for social distancing, mask-wearing, and reduced capacity limits.”

The two [were later found guilty of contempt of court](https://globalnews.ca/news/7987350/calgary-judge-pastor-pawlowski-whistle-stop-cafe-guilty-contempt-covid/) for violating health orders again, allegedly organizing a large event and telling people not to follow pandemic restrictions as hospitalizations in Alberta surged higher than at any point during the pandemic.

That May arrest gave Pawlawski another 15 minutes of fame on the right, so he toured the U.S., [appearing again on Fox News](https://video.foxnews.com/v/6261812956001#sp=show-clips) and asking for Americans’ “help in Canada” to fight COVID-19 restrictions. He said that he has received 30 citations for violating pandemic restrictions.

*(Alex Bollinger has been working in LGBTQ media for over a decade and has a Masters degree from the Paris School of Economics. He lives in Paris with his partner. This story was first published on LGBTQ Nation. Follow @alexpbollinger on Twitter.)*

  - [  Previous Article **The Oculus Generation is a Metaphor for our Moment** ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22721:the-oculus-generation-is-a-metaphor-for-our-moment&catid=378)
- [  Next Article **Walmartland: How US Stores Colonizing Mexico Are Displacing Local Culture** ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22441:walmartland-how-us-stores-colonizing-mexico-are-displacing-local-culture&catid=378)
<div data-id="1" 
	class="eb-inst eb-hide eb-emailform eb-1 eboxContentLocker"
	data-options='{"trigger":"onPageLoad","trigger_selector":"","delay":3000,"early_trigger":true,"scroll_depth":"percentage","scroll_depth_value":80,"firing_frequency":1,"reverse_scroll_close":true,"threshold":0,"close_out_viewport":false,"exit_timer":1000,"idle_time":10000,"close_on_esc":false,"animation_open":"slideInDown","animation_close":"fadeOutDown","animation_duration":400,"disable_page_scroll":true,"test_mode":false,"debug":false,"ga_tracking":true,"ga_tracking_id":"G-P16BQ7X1SW","ga_tracking_event_category":"EngageBox","ga_tracking_event_label":"Box #1 - Global Email Signup Form","auto_focus":false}'
	data-type='popup'
	>

	<button type="button" data-ebox-cmd="close" class="eb-close placement-outside" aria-label="Close">
	<img alt="close popup button" />
	<span aria-hidden="true">&times;</span>
</button>
	<div class="eb-dialog eb-formVer" role="dialog" aria-modal="true" id="dialog1" aria-label="dialog1">
		
		<button type="button" data-ebox-cmd="close" class="eb-close placement-inside" aria-label="Close">
	<img alt="close popup button" />
	<span aria-hidden="true">&times;</span>
</button>	
		<div class="eb-container">
						<div class="eb-content">
				
<form action="https://citywatchla.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=34d69f33624fd058ee9b56516&amp;id=4bfa422f51&amp;f_id=00d6c2e1f0" class="eb" method="post" id="mcform-1" name="mcform-1" target="_blank">
			<div class="eb-form-header"><p><img src="/images/2023/06/be-a-city-watcher.png" alt="be a city watcher" width="350" height="97" loading="lazy" data-path="local-images:/2023/06/be-a-city-watcher.png"></p>
<p>Sign up to receive our special e-news blasts on Monday and Thursday evenings!</p></div>
	
					<div class="eb-field-row">

			
			
			
			<input class="eb-input" type="email" name="EMAIL"  placeholder="Email address"  id="EMAIL" value="" required>

			
		</div>
										
	<div class="eb-footer">
    	<button class="eb-btn" type="submit" name="subscribe" style="background-color:rgba(93, 183, 93, 1);color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 1)">
    		Sign up    	</button>
    </div>
</form>			</div>
		</div>
	</div>	
</div>
<div data-id="3" 
	class="eb-inst eb-hide eb-yesno eb-3 "
	data-options='{"trigger":"onScrollDepth","trigger_selector":"","delay":0,"early_trigger":false,"scroll_depth":"percentage","scroll_depth_value":80,"firing_frequency":2,"reverse_scroll_close":false,"threshold":0,"close_out_viewport":false,"exit_timer":1000,"idle_time":1000,"close_on_esc":false,"animation_open":"fadeInUp","animation_close":"fadeOut","animation_duration":300,"disable_page_scroll":false,"test_mode":false,"debug":false,"ga_tracking":true,"ga_tracking_id":"G-P16BQ7X1SW","ga_tracking_event_category":"EngageBox","ga_tracking_event_label":"Box #3 - Yes \/ No Donation Popup Box","auto_focus":false}'
	data-type='popup'
	>

	<button type="button" data-ebox-cmd="close" class="eb-close placement-outside" aria-label="Close">
	<img alt="close popup button" />
	<span aria-hidden="true">&times;</span>
</button>
	<div class="eb-dialog " role="dialog" aria-modal="true" id="dialog3" aria-label="dialog3">
		
		<button type="button" data-ebox-cmd="close" class="eb-close placement-inside" aria-label="Close">
	<img alt="close popup button" />
	<span aria-hidden="true">&times;</span>
</button>	
		<div class="eb-container">
						<div class="eb-content">
				
<div class="ebox-yes-no">
	<div class="ebox-yn-text">
		
		
		<div class="ebox-yn-headline" style="font-size:22px;color:#888888">
			<p>If you only give once a month, would you consider giving to CityWatch?</p>
<p>Your support fuels our mission to promote and facilitate civic engagement and neighborhood empowerment, and to hold area government and its politicians accountable.</p>
<p>Would you like to help? Even if you can only give $5, it will make a difference.</p>		</div>
			</div>
	
	<div class="ebox-ys-buttons" style="font-size: 16px;">
		
<a
					data-ebox-prevent="0"
		data-ebox-cmd="close"
				target="_self"
		href="https://www.citywatchla.com/donate"
		rel="noopener"
	
	
	
	
	class="ebox-ys-btn"
	style="background-color:#2ec664;color:#ffffff;min-width:100px">
	Yes
	</a>
<a
	
	
			data-ebox-cmd="close"
		href="#"
	
	
	class="ebox-ys-btn"
	style="background-color:#ef2345;color:#ffffff;min-width:100px">
	Not Right Now
	</a>	</div>

	</div>			</div>
		</div>
	</div>	
</div>