Christians face 47 years in jail for reading from the bible and singing
"Christians Face 47 Years in Prison For Reading Bible, Praying On Street
Center for Law and Policy December 16 2004
Tupelo, MS - After a federal appeals court denied an emergency appeal to stop prosecution of 11 Christians on Tuesday, Philadelphia Municipal Court Judge William Austin Meehan ordered four of the Christians to stand trial on three felony (criminal conspiracy, ethnic intimidation, and riot) and five misdemeanor charges. If convicted, they could face up to 47 years in prison.
The Christians were arrested on October 10 for praying, singing, and reading scripture during an annual “gay pride” event known as “Outfest” in Philadelphia.
Since the federal courts did not intervene to halt the state prosecution, the last route for the Christians would be an appeal to the Supreme Court says the Christians’ attorney Brian Fahling, senior trial attorney for the American Family Association Center for Law & Policy.
“First, symbols of Christianity are removed from the public square, now, Christians are facing years in prison because they preached the gospel in the public square. Stalin would be proud,” Fahling said.
The federal appeals court in Philadelphia denied emergency relief despite video footage Fahling calls “undisputed evidence” that shows the Christians cooperating with police and continually being harassed by the Pink Angels, a group of homosexuals organized to impede the gospel message. Philadelphia city prosecutor in the case, Charles Ehrlich, attacked the Christians as “hateful” and referred to preaching the Bible as “fighting words,” the judge agreed.
Charges were dropped against the remaining seven apparently because they were not seen quoting scripture on the videotape.
The Philadelphia case represents another example of discrimination toward Christians,” said Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association national headquarters. “The past month has poured forth cases of Christian persecution seen in the higher education institution, public school systems, and the judicial court system.”"
this is reminiscent of stalinist russia where the christians would be sent to gulags.
I've seen the video and all they did was went into a gay pride march where hundreds of people were holding up signs, the christians held up their signs and were arrested for it and now face 47 years in prison.
These days even murderers and rapists dont get that long.
Under the 1st ammendment everybody has the right to free speech...FULL STOP no ifs or buts it clearly says that.
If the gay pride demonstrators can hold up their signs so can the christians, the christians were not being abusive, they didn't attack anyone they did not raise their voice they simply held up signs in what looked like a sea of people holding up signs, but the christians were the ones arrested and facing 47 years in jail.
Under the constitution everyone there had a right to hold up their signs, they were arrested and not the other people holding different signs because one was a thought crime and the other was not.
When it becomes a crime to express your belief or religeon you enter into the disgusting world of thought crime and 1984 style drudgery.
We have history repeating itself.
Religeous groups persecuted (muslims and christians), civil liberties being lost due to government terrorism, camps being set up, torture being popularised, illegal wars of conquest, shady new organisations set up that are above the law and can search your home while you're not in without telling you, checkpoints, , government and corprate interests have merged, people in the high ranks of government saying your leader is above the law and has the power to do anything he wishes, news organisations calling for the arrest of anyone that disagrees with the leader and calling them 'enemies of the state'.
Am i talking about america or NAZI germany? very hard to tell isn't it?
Center for Law and Policy December 16 2004
Tupelo, MS - After a federal appeals court denied an emergency appeal to stop prosecution of 11 Christians on Tuesday, Philadelphia Municipal Court Judge William Austin Meehan ordered four of the Christians to stand trial on three felony (criminal conspiracy, ethnic intimidation, and riot) and five misdemeanor charges. If convicted, they could face up to 47 years in prison.
The Christians were arrested on October 10 for praying, singing, and reading scripture during an annual “gay pride” event known as “Outfest” in Philadelphia.
Since the federal courts did not intervene to halt the state prosecution, the last route for the Christians would be an appeal to the Supreme Court says the Christians’ attorney Brian Fahling, senior trial attorney for the American Family Association Center for Law & Policy.
“First, symbols of Christianity are removed from the public square, now, Christians are facing years in prison because they preached the gospel in the public square. Stalin would be proud,” Fahling said.
The federal appeals court in Philadelphia denied emergency relief despite video footage Fahling calls “undisputed evidence” that shows the Christians cooperating with police and continually being harassed by the Pink Angels, a group of homosexuals organized to impede the gospel message. Philadelphia city prosecutor in the case, Charles Ehrlich, attacked the Christians as “hateful” and referred to preaching the Bible as “fighting words,” the judge agreed.
Charges were dropped against the remaining seven apparently because they were not seen quoting scripture on the videotape.
The Philadelphia case represents another example of discrimination toward Christians,” said Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association national headquarters. “The past month has poured forth cases of Christian persecution seen in the higher education institution, public school systems, and the judicial court system.”"
this is reminiscent of stalinist russia where the christians would be sent to gulags.
I've seen the video and all they did was went into a gay pride march where hundreds of people were holding up signs, the christians held up their signs and were arrested for it and now face 47 years in prison.
These days even murderers and rapists dont get that long.
Under the 1st ammendment everybody has the right to free speech...FULL STOP no ifs or buts it clearly says that.
If the gay pride demonstrators can hold up their signs so can the christians, the christians were not being abusive, they didn't attack anyone they did not raise their voice they simply held up signs in what looked like a sea of people holding up signs, but the christians were the ones arrested and facing 47 years in jail.
Under the constitution everyone there had a right to hold up their signs, they were arrested and not the other people holding different signs because one was a thought crime and the other was not.
When it becomes a crime to express your belief or religeon you enter into the disgusting world of thought crime and 1984 style drudgery.
We have history repeating itself.
Religeous groups persecuted (muslims and christians), civil liberties being lost due to government terrorism, camps being set up, torture being popularised, illegal wars of conquest, shady new organisations set up that are above the law and can search your home while you're not in without telling you, checkpoints, , government and corprate interests have merged, people in the high ranks of government saying your leader is above the law and has the power to do anything he wishes, news organisations calling for the arrest of anyone that disagrees with the leader and calling them 'enemies of the state'.
Am i talking about america or NAZI germany? very hard to tell isn't it?
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