You know it!
Posted on 06/27/2007 6:59:53 AM PDT by Nextrush
A city court in Erlangen, Bavaria gave Lutheran Pastor Johannes Lerle a one year jail sentence for the "crime" of comparing abortion to the Nazi holocaust.
In response, Jim Hughes, Vice-President of International Right to Life Federation has called on pro-life activists internationally to take action on the matter by contacting German authorities to demand freedom of speech and freedom of religion for the pastor (see contact information below the story).
Pastor Johannes Lerle compared the annual murder of 150,000 babies through abortion in Germany to the murder of thousands of innocent Jews in Auschwitz. The court, which consisted of no jury and a single judge, ruled that this statement made Lerle a holocaust denier.
On 14 June Judge Erda Erdenhofner convicted Lerle of a particular crime known as "volksvethetzung" or "incitement of the people."
During his address to the court, Lerle defended himself and claimed that his statement was in no way taking away from the gravity of the sufferings of the Jews.
The German Catholic news agency kreuz.com reports that the reason for the severity of the punishment is in part due to the pastor's six previous convictions, which have seen the pastor serve two prison terms lasting eight and a half months in total. He was formerly imprisoned for calling abortionists and their aides "child murderers."
Brussels Journal reporter Paul Belien notes that German courts have slammed other pro-life advocates with heavy sentences for similar statements. German pro-life advocate Gunter Annen, for example, was reported by the Journal as calling for an end to "unjust abortions" in 2005. She received a 50-day jail sentence on the grounds that her claim that abortion is "unjust" is legally inaccurate. The court decided that her words wrongly implied that abortion is illegal in Germany.....
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This recent example is in Erlangen, Bavaria, same area as the homeschool controversy earlier this year.
What Germany is doing to pro-life speech is outrageous.
America is based on a lot more freedom and lets hope we can keep it that way.
I bet the left is just drooling at the mouth wishing to have that kind of power.
That is just SO UPSIDE DOWN!
It is obvious that everyone who is in favor of abortion, has already been born!
It is not a choice,
It is a child.
...and it is a Holocaust. Killing millions of innocent humans! Killing millions of humans IS a Holocaust!
Germany is anxious to return its power to another Hitler it appears. It obviously hates those promoting life. This infuriates me so much that Germany would even go this direction, knowing what Hitler ended up doing!
That judge is a holocaust denier.
I guess they forgot that part of the Holocause was the forced abortions of Jewish babies, as well as other “undesireables”.
“On 14 June Judge Erda Erdenhofner convicted Lerle of a particular crime known as “volksvethetzung” or “incitement of the people.”
....Except that our LEFT is the side who INCITES THE PEOPLE against the president and the military, etc. If Hillary wins/steals the election the USA as we know it - will no longer exist.
Looks like the Germans have finally discovered a crime that they are willing to punish by imprisonment.
You know it!
That is not to downplay in the least the horror of the genocide committed by Nazi Germany against the Jews and others. That had to be stopped, and kept a maniac and his regime from taking control of large parts of the world and perpetrating the same across the board.
The problem with abortion (outside of it being out and out murder and the destruction of what should be one of the most tranquel places on earth...the womb) is that the mentatlity of the people themselves, across large parts of this earth, has allowed it...even applauded and supported it. From this perspective it is also worse than the holocaust. it has already spread across much of the world where Hitler was stopped in Europe and North Africa.
Next time we must destroy this garbage once and for all.
This pastor actually learned this lesson, and he IS speaking up for the people who are being persecuted. Sadly, the rest of Germany may end up re-learning the lesson of what happens when society systematically persecutes the helpless.
Orwell would have loved this.
Where Lerle is wrong is that the Holocaust came about because of the diabolical policies of one twisted individual, the evil of abortion has infected millions. The guilt is much more widespread. It’s “lucky” for us (da human race) that the Lord God Almighty decided one Flood was His limit.
That’s what they want, in the name of (their) utopia.
This is the next step in America. Stop the preaching against abortion from the pulpit, or lose your tax exemption or even risk prison.
They’re almost half-way there too.
Germany is just so screwed up, as is much of Europe. If we’re not careful, this type of nonsense is coming to the US. As another poster pointed out, the fascists were left in charge and we are seeing that legacy.
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