Philly Judge Applauded for Ruling in Favor of Christian Protestors

AgapePress ^ | February 18, 2005 | Jody Brown

[DirtyHarryY2K]

Instead of making that statement, Gramley suggests Dembe should have mentioned the law enforcement officials whose actions during the arrests were "more reminiscent of a police state."

Exactly! As you can see in the video

the fat police captian that was in charge at the event had a red arm band on. How appropriate.

[deepFR]

Where Dembe's ruling were correct, her comparison of Christians rights to free speech to the KKK's an Nazi's was appalling.

[DirtyHarryY2K]

Homosexual Agenda Ping.

See also:
U.S. attorneys complicit in arrest of Christians?

Excerpt:
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.

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[DirtyHarryY2K]

Ping

[af_vet_1981]

Need Federal Civil Rights charges against the Philadelphia officials who persecuted them ...

[Goodgirlinred]

I thought hate crime laws were about violence against specific groups of people, not speech. Beating up or murdering someone because he is gay is a hate crime. Reading the Bible to him is not.

[deepFR]

The way things are going, it will be unless Christians go more on offense and less on defense.

[TAdams8591]

No. If you publically call someone a "gay bastard" you can be charged with a "hate crime" as well.

[Jimbaugh]

Time to file the lawsuits against the City and cash in big.

[rdb3]

UNBELIEVEABLE!

These men and women of Repent America are better people than I. I was just hoping someone with a softball bat would have came through there and cracked some heads. That temporary satisfaction would have been detrimental, sure. But how could something like this happen in broad daylight in America?

[dpa5923]

Beating up and murdering someone is murder. Hate crime is newspeak for thought control.

[Goodgirlinred]

But isn't it a hate crime when there is no motive other than a person's race, religion, or sexual orientation, occupation, etc.?

[Goodgirlinred]

That is just words. That is not a crime. I am talking about violence.

[DirtyHarryY2K]

I'm not worried about "cashing in". I hope to see the people responsible held accountable. They've abused their power and should be tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail.

[xm177e2]

her comparison of Christians rights to free speech to the KKK's an Nazi's was appalling

She was pointing to the extremes that we have, and that those Christians were well within them. It wasn't a "comparison."

[deepFR]

Perhaps, but imagine if someone made the same contrast with homosexual activist groups; do you really believe that they would not have been all over it?

[Goodgirlinred]

Well, you are right on that score. My daughter teaches at a Christian school. She went to a teachers' conference recently. One speaker was a professor from Colorado. He is a Christian. He told them about a young professor who did not have tenure. He had invited a religious speaker in to speak to his class. Some students complained. He was fired. The professor speaking at the conference said he did the same thing. He was tenured. There were complaints, but he had tenure and they could not fire him. He said that the sad thing was that no one spoke up for him or the young professor who was fired. He said there were many Christians there, but no one spoke up for them. Yet hundreds speak up for Ward Churchill. He has so many followers. This professor said that if Christians, who have been taught that the meek will inherit the earth, do not begin to speak up, they will lose their freedom of religion and speech.

[xm177e2]

Perhaps, but imagine if someone made the same contrast with homosexual activist groups; do you really believe that they would not have been all over it?

They might have cried, too. Maybe you could have shared a box of tissues.

[TAdams8591]

I understand what you are talking about. For publicly calling someone a "gay bastard' for instance, in a situation where there was NO VIOLANCE, you can be charged with the "CRIME" of ETHNIC INTIMIDATION.

IT IS ONE REASON WHY SUCH LAWS ARE SO BAD.

[deepFR]

Both entitled to our opinions, but there is no debating that the judge did not compare their right to free speech with civil rights activists et al, she compared their rights with 2 of the vilest groups imaginable whose veiws are tolerated and percieved to be out of the mainstream. I find it interesting that where no personal negative statements were directed at you, you find it necessarry to respond with snide and sarcastic remarks?