A 53-year-old man from Northamptonshire is in police custody over the leaflets branding gay people 'worthy of death' in Chester earlier this week.
The leaflets, distributed in several UK towns and cities about to host Pride events, describe homosexuality as 'not natural' and 'part of the same moral degradation as...pedophilia.'
Some eyewitnesses of the person or people giving out the leaflets say they are being handed out dressed in a 'mysterious monk' outfit.
It also asserts Pride events as being for the 'delight of demons', which follows a quote from the letter of St Paul to the Romans which talks of the 'wrath of God' being unleashed against 'all ungodliness and unrighteousness'.
The leaflets were dismissed as harmless by Leicestershire police.
Cheshire Police confirmed the arrest of the 53-year-old man. saying the man was arrested in the early hours of this morning (2 October) .
