Posted on 01/05/2005 12:12:14 AM PST by JohnHuang2
Wednesday, January 5, 2005
TESTING THE FAITH
U.S. attorneys complicit
in arrest of Christians?
Source says homosexual government lawyers advised Philadelphia police at 'OutFest' event
By Ron Strom
Homosexual attorneys from the U.S. Justice Department Civil Rights Division not only attended a large homosexual event in Philadelphia last year, but they advised police on the scene who arrested 11 Christian protesters, says a source within the agency.
According to the Justice Department employee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, a number of agency attorneys from Washington, D.C., attended the October "OutFest" event, and, he says, they therefore are not likely to take up the cause of the five criminally charged Christians who believe Philadelphia officials violated their civil rights.
As WorldNetDaily reported, on Oct. 10, the group was "preaching God's Word" to a crowd of people attending the Philadelphia event and displaying banners with biblical messages.
After a confrontation with a group called the Pink Angels, described by protesters as "a militant mob of homosexuals," the 11 Christians were arrested and spent a night in jail.
Eight charges were filed: criminal conspiracy, possession of instruments of crime, reckless endangerment of another person, ethnic intimidation, riot, failure to disperse, disorderly conduct and obstructing highways.
None of the Pink Angels was cited or arrested.
After a preliminary hearing in December, Judge William Austin Meehan ordered four of the Christians to stand trial on three felony and five misdemeanor charges. If convicted, they could get a maximum of 47 years in prison. One female teenage protester faces charges in the juvenile justice system.
"Some of the lawyers in [the Civil Rights Division] participated in the gay-rights march," the source told WND, referring to the OutFest event. "They participate in those kinds of marches."
Because of that participation, the source thought there would be a "conflict" with the homosexual attorneys, saying they would not be too eager to help the Christians who protested at OutFest.
The Justice source said he estimated between 10 and 11 percent of the attorneys in the Civil Rights Division are homosexual.
He said he believes the protesters were charged with ethic intimidation "at the recommendation of some of our attorneys who were at the march."
Continued the Justice employee: "They advised the police as witnesses, not as legal counsel, but as witnesses who may have observed what happened."
Supporters of the defendants, known as "the Philadelphia 5," have encouraged concerned Americans to contact the Department of Justice to urge officials there to take action against the city of Philadelphia for allegedly violating the civil rights of the protesters.
A notice on the Repent America website
states, "Encourage the U.S. Department of Justice to get involved by contacting Chief Albert Moskowitz in the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division at 202-514-4540, and Chief Shanetta Brown-Cutlar in Special Litigation at 202-514-6255."
A general e-mail address is listed on the department's website for contacting the agency.
The Justice Department source said some attorneys there have tried to get more homosexual lawyers into the agency.
"The attorneys who are gay here are trying to encourage more diversity," he said. "But there's no quote or anything."
Brian Fahling, senior trial attorney for the American Family Association's Center for Law & Policy, is representing the Christian defendants. He was not surprised that Department of Justice attorneys may have attended OutFest.
"Actually, that wouldn't surprise me because they're not all political appointments," he told WND. "There would be some who would be career civil servants from the Clinton administration."
Fahling said it was "always a possibility" that the sexual orientation of Justice attorneys could bias them against the Philadelphia 5. Even so, the attorney believes if enough public pressure is put on the Department of Justice, officials there will take action against the city of Philadelphia.
"With a sufficient amount of pressure, something will happen," he said. "We're going to continue to press in that direction."
Fahling said it was "mind-numbing" that his clients potentially could be facing 47 years in jail.
"It's clear that the facts don't matter … in Philadelphia," he said, "so there's going to have to be outside intervention" from the Justice Department.
Fahling said that at the preliminary hearing in December, the Philadelphia city prosecutor in the case, Charles Ehrlich, attacked the defendants as "hateful" and referred to preaching the Bible as "fighting words," a characterization, the law group says, with which Judge Meehan agreed.
Charges were dropped against six of the 11 Christians, apparently because they were not seen quoting Scripture on the videotape.
The ethnic intimidation charge stems from Pennsylvania's "hate crimes" law – to which the newest "victim" category of "sexual orientation" was recently added.
A video of the arrest, provided by the Center for Law & Policy can be seen here [Windows Media].
Christians are being exterminated by the hundreds daily worldwide as we speak and yet Americans do nothing.
Maybe the US courts would rule it favoring one religion over the other if you tried to save Christians from being murdered and raped by Muslims. LOL
Pathetic.
I wouldn't doubt that. Buddhist monks would probably do more to stand up for themselves than modern American Christians. Half "don't really believe all that Bible stuff anyway" and the other half think the Rapture is coming tomorrow so there is no need to do anything.
Drobot, that's a good point, I'm going to call someone in The Church about this.
Time for the U.S. Dept. of Justice to intervene.
Given the article,doesn't seem to be likely.
There is pressure being put on the DOJ and office of the prez for such. Get out your email list....
If you haven't realized yet that your Christianity is in danger I don't know what to say.
Philly Pride Presents is as about as grassroots of an organization as you can get, and duly proud of it. Philly Pride is a tax exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Its meetings are the first Saturday of every month and are open to the public. It makes a public accounting of its funds to the community after each event. Its coordinators are elected by all community members present at their meetings. The organization has registered trade names of Philly Pride Presents and OutFest.
So their meetings are open to the public but their events held on public property aren't? Or only if you're a Christian who quotes scripture? I think we can see what's going on here, doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out.
One thing that really burns me in addition to the arrests is that the judge has barred them from evangelizing within 100 yards(or is it feet?) of any homosexual event. I'd like to know how in the world he can justify that order. Guess we know the answer to that too.
What the police officer,DA ,etc should do is predicated on
what is PC.Even Law in America to day is bound -not by what is written-but by who is interpreting and has the armed force to enforce.Inthose days there was no king in Israel,and everyman did what was right in his own eyes.
We have arrived at the final verse in the Book of the Judges.
I use th ehomosexual Manifesto by Steve Warren of ActUp
Warning to the Homophobes published in the Advocate cited
by George Grant in The Family Under Seige Bethany House ,1994 pp157,158 Th elanguage more clealry militant and demand for surrender of Orthodox Jews and Christians
very clear.
I'm wondering if the cops held their noses and did this - because if they didn't those gay attorneys would probably turn around and get some real criminals off to make the cops' lives miserable.
Well I agree that many don't realize it could get as bad as it was during WWII for the Jews, but even if they do, the Bible says it will happen... so even if we do fight it, we're kind of doomed to be part of the fulfillment of prophecy in any case (imo). HOWEVER -- that isn't the end of the story, as we all know...
We (the Philadelphia 4) had to show up in court on Wednesday jan. 5 to find out when our court date was scheduled for. I, and another of our group had to drive all the way from VA. Once we got there, the court tells us they haven'y set the date yet and we will have to come back next week. Philly is just jerking us around at this point. On Jan. 12, we will find out when the trial will be.
I'm keeping the latest updates posted on our site at:
www.lifeandlibertyministries.com
I don't like it when the MSM relies on anonymous sources. And we shouldn't lap it up when WND does the same.
The courts would give a lesser sentence if they assaulted or killed someone
"If you make peaceful protest impossible, you make violent protest inevitable." -- John F. Kennedy
The courts would give a lesser sentence if they assaulted or killed someone
"If you make peaceful protest impossible, you make violent protest inevitable." -- John F. Kennedy
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