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Four Christians Face Possible 47 Years in Prison for Actions at Evangelizing at Gay Event
The Christian Post. ^ | Saturday, Dec. 18, 2004 | Susan Wang

Posted on 12/18/2004 7:05:03 PM PST by DAVEY CROCKETT

Four Christians will stand trial for preaching the Gospel during and a “gay pride” event in Philadelphia. They could receive a sentence of up to 47 years in prison.

Saturday, Dec. 18, 2004 Posted: 2:53:07PM EST

On Tuesday, the Philadelphia federal appeals court denied an emergency appeal to halt prosecution of 11 Christians. While charges were dropped against 7 of the participants, four of the Christians are facing trial where they could receive up to 47 years in prison.

On October 10, eleven Christians with Repent America were arrested during the annual “Outfest”, a gay pride event held in Philadelphia. The Christians were singing, praying, and reading passages from the Bible.

Efforts to block their prosecution were denied last week by U.S. District Judge Petrese B. Tucker. At a preliminary hearing on December 14, an emergency appeal to block the prosecutions was also denied.

Municipal Court Judge William Austin Meehan ruled that four of the Christians will face felony and misdemeanor charges, for preaching what the prosecutor Charles Ehrlich calls “hate speech” from the Bible. Charges against the other seven individuals were dropped because they were not seen participating in reading scripture.

Video footage of the incident shows that the Christians cooperated with the police, while a group called the Pink Angels, a gay pride group, continually harassed them to stop their preaching.

Brian Fahling, senior trial attorney for the American Family Association Center for Law & Policy and attorney for the Christians, says that the last option will be an appeal to the Supreme Court to stop the prosecution.

Said Fahling of the recent rulings, “First, symbols of Christianity are removed from the public square, now, Christians are facing years in prison because they preached the gospel in the public square. Stalin would be proud.”


TOPICS: Catholic; Charismatic Christian; Current Events; Evangelical Christian; General Discusssion; Mainline Protestant; Moral Issues; Orthodox Christian; Other Christian; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
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To: backslacker

Ok then, we try to decipher Jesus saying the lightning flashes from the east even unto the west : what does that mean? First note that he's talking about HORIZONTAL, not vertical, lightning. Now, what could make horizontal, latitudinal lightning all over the earth? AHA : Lenz's law, the electrical version of action-reaction. This is how electricity is actually generated(Maxwell's +dE/dt term in his 4th equation). And in an electrical distribution system you have lots of magnetic energy built up in lots of motor coils, sort of like springs that are compressed. When the whole system shuts down you get a brief reverse current surge, called back EMF, and that is all those motor coils releasing that pent up energy in those magnetic "springs". Ok so far? Now, 2 UFO "coils" or rings containing vast amounts of magnetic spin energy land at the north and south poles and flux-dump through the CORE, both inner and outer. 2 possibilities : spin up or spin down(faster or slower earth-spin). This intense dipole magnetic field(in the TESLAs range)thus "grabs" the core and spins it eastward or westward(think of stretching rubber bands). In spin-down the magnetic field is spinning westward(retrograde)but the earth continues to spin eastward, thus a Lenz Law generated current(lightning flashing from the east even unto the west). As the earth spin slows down by 10% Spin Angular Momentum(hint : a bath is a tenth part of a cor, in Ezekial)it CHANGES SHAPE. The equator is 12 miles above a perfect sphere because of earth-spin. Now can you figure out from there how a richter 15 earthquake occurs, and the entire surface gets covered with LAVA?


21 posted on 12/23/2004 9:12:49 AM PST by timer
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To: timer

Thanks for your though-provoking reponses. I don't know the answer to the richer 15 earthquake, however, I will think about it. If you know of other science related info pertaining to revelation, or relating to Israel, the Bible, etc., I would appreciate it. You don't have to spend a great deal of time for this, just tidbits. I don't want to hog up all your online time. Thanks again, have a Happy New Year, and may God bless you and your loved ones.


22 posted on 12/30/2004 2:13:02 PM PST by backslacker (Mt 24:14: And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all.)
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To: backslacker

Well, thanks for your response. Ok, the richter scale goes up by about 250 times per unit(like the BEL scale as in decibels goes up by an exponent of 10), so the recent aceh undersea earthquake had a magnitude of 9.0. A 15.0 earthquake would be 250x250x250x250x250x250 times greater in total magnitude of energy release, or about 10% of the earth's spin angular momentum. I have the ability to directly communicate with HIM(pray and point my finger to the answer in the bible). His response to this question : a minor phrase in Ezekial : a bath is a tenth part of a cor. Translated : a(lava)bath(covering the whole earth)is a tenth part(of the total SAM of the earth)of(as to)the cor(e). Jesus refers to the counter EMF(back EMF from Lenz's Law)as(latitudinal)lightning flashing from the east even unto the west(from the magnetic "hit" as described above). Now, would you like to know how our JESUS was actually raised from the dead? It actually started back on mount Tabor, the Transfiguration; it was a CAT SCAN. To wit, his body is going to undergo a tremendous amount of damage in the crucifiction, yes? So, when you repair all that cellular damage, what is your record to repair it(the body)back TO? Thus the earlier CAT SCAN on Mt Tabor. Got it? Then, he was crucified on THURSDAY, not friday. Remember? THREE days and THREE nights in the grave = part of thurs, + fri, sat; and T/F/S nights. Thus about 30 hours DEAD(physically). The shroud of Turin tells the rest of the story : Sunday AM : a su-co ring(rectangular loop)is placed around his body(10^27 fermions)and the volume is slam frozen to 0 deg K. Now, the first law of thermodynamics says that energy can never be created or destroyed, only transferred; thus his body is at about 300 deg K in the tomb(room temp if you will). The HEAT in his body thus has to GO somewhere. Since 1/2 of the fermions are spin-down and 1/2 spin-up, as to the x-y plane of the loop, gamma rays are emitted 1/2 up and 1/2 down(+z/-z vector directions), producing the scorch-image/negative picture on the shroud. The microscopist on Jackson's team(at a lecture at our church)said that the(surface only)scorch was equivalent to a brief, intense gamma ray burst at 1 meter. Now of course satanists will say the shroud is a fake(they only tested the PATCH in the atomic carbon dating test which was sewn on after the church fire in the 1500's). Anyway, he tells Mary Magdelene not to touch him as she might have gotten a cryogenic burn or interferred with the CAT SCAN healing process, got it? Anyway, I could tell you how he does the "magic" tricks of floating in the air, walking on water, healing, disappearing right in front of his disciples, etc; but we'll leave that for later. Point here is : Arthur Clarke's third law : a sufficiently advanced technology will seem like MAGIC to a less advanced technology. But know this : someone up there LOVES us even as the smelly, gross MONKEYS that we are("apes with guns" as aliens refer to us). The nicest things in re to the crucifiction and resurrection, to me, is the truly heartfelt prayer of Jesus to his friends at the end of the last supper, it really HURT him to be parting with them; and the "neat-nic" who folded up the shroud...why? W=P


23 posted on 12/30/2004 5:08:36 PM PST by timer
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To: ValerieUSA
Ping!
24 posted on 01/14/2005 11:05:01 PM PST by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on January 13, 2005)
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