Posted on 03/13/2011 10:14:21 PM PDT by mojito
...I was caught in my own net the other day, asked to name my greatest living Canadian hero. Fortunately I was prepared for the question, and could answer immediately: Linda Gibbons.
For those who have never heard of her -- her story is seldom mentioned in our media -- Linda is Canada's longest serving political prisoner.
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Linda Gibbons, by contrast, has no prospect of release. She is a grandmother, age 62. Her crime was praying, publicly, inside the 60-foot "bubble" around a Morgentaler abortion clinic in Toronto. She also, on occasion, held up a placard reading, "Why, Mom, when I have so much love to give?" She first did this in defiance of a temporary court injunction obtained by the Ontario attorney general back in 1994 and has returned to doing it, and been re-arrested, each time she has been released.
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Another contrast is instructive. While Linda Gibbons was languishing in jail, Henry Morgentaler, the abortionist, received the Order of Canada for his "commitment to increased health-care options for women," and so on. No comment of mine could go further in exposing the moral horror at the heart of contemporary Canadian public life.
(Excerpt) Read more at davidwarrenonline.com ...
Isn’t Canada where they let the woman go who helped her husband, the serial killer, murder other women, including her own sister? Not only that, they gave her a new identity, so that no-one would pick on her, once she was released.
That case is discussed in the article.
wagglebee, little_jeremiah:
A Candian woman held in jail for praying and protesting abortion.
Let’s pray for her and ask the Holy Spirit to guide her.
AMEN!
We know what happened to Christianity when Peter was released from prison!
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