San Francisco street preacher threatened with gun for saying God makes men and women

A San Francisco street preacher was lauded for keeping his composure after a passerby threatened him with a gun.

Kevin Kihara was live streaming his message near 4th & Market Streets this week when something he said triggered someone passing by who pulled a gun out and waved it at him before storming off.

Video captured the shocking moment as the pastor from Christian Forgiveness Ministries stayed cool and even shouted “I still bless you” after the unidentified passerby.

Holy shlit. Trans person pulls a gun on a street preacher for saying that God made men to be men and women to be women pic.twitter.com/Om2c9RoHyK

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 12, 2025

“You need to try being less like somebody you are not and start to humble yourself and be somebody God made you to be,” Kihara said in the microphone as he preached from the sidewalk.

“He didn’t make a man to be a woman, he made the man to be a man!” he exclaimed. “He didn’t make the woman to be man, he made the woman to be a woman and this is the truth!”

As the preacher looked off camera, he seemed to address an individual who was bothered by his words.

“What, are you going to come attack me now?” he asked.

“I should,” responded the person identified as a transgender who was wearing black-and-white striped fingerless gloves and a similar patterned shirt under denim overalls.

The individual approached the pastor while pulling the gun out of a purse, waving it for a moment right at Kihara’s face before turning and storming off.

“Hey man, it’s up to you if you want to pull that on me. God bless you,” the street preacher called out, having somehow maintained his composure through the chilling moments.

“Shut the f*** up!” the person shouted back while appearing to put the gun back in the purse.

“So you just threatened me with a gun. You just pulled a gun on my face,” Kihara said. “Man, Lord have mercy on you. This means you don’t even know who you are. Nope, I still love you though. Even though you pulled a gun on me, I still love you, I still bless you.”

Kihara spoke of the incident on The Alex Jones Show, telling the host that “he may have pulled a weapon on me but in his eyes, without even realizing it, I had a greater weapon and that was the truth through the word of God.”

“That actually pierced his heart and that’s why he felt threatened and that’s why out of his anger and frustration, because his reality, this illusion that he’s living under, was coming crumbling down.”

Social media users expressed their shock over the scene that unfolded on the video.

the tolerant left…

— Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) March 12, 2025

That preacher was a bad ass

— Old School Eddie (@Old_SchoolEddie) March 12, 2025

Thats in San Francisco along Market Street at 4th, within the @SFPDTenderloin of @SFPD district @MattHaneySF district. Not that any of them will bother, they never followup on crimes like this, but here I’ll help. That’s a violation of 417.4 PC (brandishing).

— Soapy (@OrkSoapy) March 12, 2025

“God bless you” after having a gun jammed in his face.

What a baller. The man dressing up as a woman needs to be arrested.

— Ryan Jacobsen (@Dndbreakfast) March 12, 2025

Brandishing a gun in that manner is a crime almost everywhere.

— Andrew Follett (@AndrewCFollett) March 12, 2025

this person needs to be arrested pic.twitter.com/Bn6BLtGpsd

— James Swad (@242swad) March 12, 2025

Woah! That preacher stayed unbelievably cool! Good on him!

— Sweet Missy (@TheSweetMissy) March 12, 2025

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