Fr. James Linton and Family Posted on 12/02/2016 4:53:13 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o
Fr. James Linton and Family
Father James Linton was arrested last month outside the San Bernardino Planned Parenthood for offering to pray with women entering the abortion facility. Police held him for six hours and later charged him with criminal trespass. If convicted, Father Linton could be sentenced to up to 90 days in jail and a $400 fine.
When he was arrested, Father Linton, an Anglican pastor, was standing on a public easement offering incoming mothers and fathers alternatives to abortion and praying for them to change their minds.
“The arrest of Father Linton is an outrageous violation of his First Amendment rights,” stated Allison Aranda, Senior Staff Counsel for the Life Legal Defense Foundation and a former prosecutor for Riverside County. “Father Linton simply offered assistance and alternatives to its patrons that could save the lives of their precious babies.”
Last year, Life Legal clients David Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress released videos of their undercover investigation of Planned Parenthood. At the time, Father Linton’s wife was pregnant with their third child.
“The combination of seeing abortion victims sorted through for parts and my wife being pregnant destroyed me,” Linton said. “She organized a protest and I’ve been in front of the clinic every Friday since.”
Every Friday, the San Bernardino Planned Parenthood facility performs abortions up to 20 weeks of pregnancy. Due in part to Father Linton’s faithful presence and success at saving babies, the abortion facility recently built a wall in an attempt to hinder sidewalk counselors and prevent them from speaking to mothers and fathers in the parking lot.
Father Linton and the other sidewalk counselors outside the San Bernardino Planned Parenthood are doing nothing more than exercising their Constitutional right to speak freely on the public sidewalk and rights of way in their community. They are not violating the law. “In fact, the code section under which Father Linton was charged specifically exempts from criminal liability those who are engaging in activities protected by the California and United States Constitutions,” Ms. Aranda noted.
Life Legal will vigorously defend Father Linton from these false charges and we will fight to preserve and protect the rights of all sidewalk advocates to share life saving information with mothers entering abortion facilities.
To defend Fr. Linton from outrageous legal persecution, donate to Life Legal Defense Foundation. These guys are the real thing.
Insanity.
Pray for America and DJT
“The arrest of Father Linton is an outrageous violation of his First Amendment rights,” stated Allison Aranda, Senior Staff Counsel for the Life Legal Defense Foundation...”
I believe that is an understatement. Where is the outrage?
I suppose now that all of the violent crime has been eliminated along with thefts and robberies, cops now turn their idle hands to charging people on public access with trespassing with intent to pray for somebody.
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Quit killing babies or go to prison. WE ARE COMING!!
Maybe we should pray for God’s wrath to rain down upon these baby butchers.
So, burning the US flag is free speech, but praying isn’t. Definitely something wrong here.
Since the so called offence took place on a public easement you would think even a newbie public defender could get the charges dropped.
God will mete out His vengeance in all due time. There will be plenty of wrath to go around and no need to ask for more. The prayers should be more directed to these mothers who feel they have no other choice but to murder the living fetus inside them.
I think of Anglicans as just like Episcopalians, but with spine.
Music’s grand, as well!
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