Posted on 01/05/2005 11:31:52 AM PST by bkny23m
What we have been saying has now happened. You cannot quote what the Bible has to say about homosexuality in public or you will be charged with a "hate crime." Philadelphia is only the beginning. If we fail to take a stand here, this "crime" will soon be applied across America.
In the 27 years of this ministry, I have never witnessed a more outrageous miscarriage of justice than what is happening in Philadelphia. Four Christians are facing up to 47-years in prison and $90,000 in fines for preaching the Gospel on a public sidewalk, a right fully protected by the First Amendment.
On October 10, 2004, the four Christians were arrested in Philadelphia. They are part of Repent America. Along with founder Michael Marcavage, members of Repent Americawith police approval--were preaching near Outfest, a homosexual event, handing out Gospel literature and carrying banners with Biblical messages.
When they tried to speak, they were surrounded by a group of radical homosexual activists dubbed the Pink Angels. A videotape of the incident shows the Pink Angels interfering with the Christians movement on the street, holding up large pink symbols of angels to cover up the Christians' messages and blowing high pitched whistles to drown out their preaching.
Rather than arrest the homosexual activists and allow the Christians to exercise their First Amendment rights, the Philadelphia police arrested and jailed the Christians!
They were charged with eight crimes, including three felonies: possession of instruments of crime (a bullhorn), ethnic intimidation (saying that homosexuality is a sin), and inciting a riot (reading from the Bible some passages relating to homosexuality) despite the fact that no riot occurred.
(Excerpt) Read more at repentamerica.com ...
Thanks for the update that is older than the story. I feel like it is a time warp here some days.
I hate to have to ping everyone but all of this is Dec news and it would seem charges against 4 are ongoing...sigh..Latest old news is in Breaking sidebar.
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/1/42005a.asp
This is all confusing ..That was old news..This seems to be the latest...There are 4 still charged.
Now I'm confused. Are there charges or are the charges dropped?
PA Christians face 47 years for reading Bible in
public and condemning homosexuality and abortion¿¿¿¿¿¿
Holy shiite, Batman!
This is an interesting statement, by the lawyer for the homosexual activitists: ... the eleven Christians were arrested in October not for preaching the gospel, but for refusing to abide by the rules established by local law enforcement authorities.
In other words, if the police tell you that you can't exercise First Amendment rights, you commit a felony if you do it anyway. Why do I have a feeling that the revolution is coming, whether I'm ready or not?
We need to put an end to this now! Major lawsuit against the city!!
4 are still charged..Cannot confirm the older link I gave you..I saw the discussion on O'Reilly so 4 are still charged and rep of the Philly DA indicated probation was the likely outcome...
http://www.afa.net/clp/ReleaseDetail.asp?id=80
Unprecedented abuse of power silences Christian message
Thanks for the cross reference. I was unaware of the connection between federal employees and citizens exercising their first amendment rights.
Apparently - and you already know this probably - these homosexual attorneys have formed an organization within Justice. This travesty should be investigated and they should be fired if they are shown to be biased against these Christians.
We need to keep up the pressure.
I saw the report about the homosexual DoJ attorneys earlier. The source was anonymous, so it has to be regarded with some caution; however, I'm not discounting it.
This whole thing is insane ...
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