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.”
I'm speechless.
The world is upside down. This is disgusting.
Ping
Gays stomp on the Host in St. Patrick and nothing happens to them. The elite in our society have adopted gays and abortionists as privileged groups.
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To illustrate what's going on : a story from the old soviet union : about 100 christians were gathered for a service in an old abandoned church in secret. In the middle of a hymn three russian soldiers burst in the door with machine guns. Their leader said : we're going to execute you christians starting in ONE MINUTE. 90 of them were OUT THE DOOR in that one minute, 10 remained. Then the leader re-closed the door and said : we just wanted to know who among you were REAL christians, now brothers in CHRIST, may we worship the one true GOD together? So, do you see what's going on? GOD is allowing these satanic forces, in attacking JESUS CHRIST, to separate the sunday morning christians from the true christians, the wheat from the chaff; for what is to COME...
Like heck it is :-) Read the hatefilled posts on this forum condemning Paul Crouch of TBN from an alledged charge from some "gay" that Dr. Crouch bit his chicken.
4CJ, is Mrs. 4CJ feeling better yet? You didn't ask for prayer--but got it anyway =->
Excellent observation! Similar to God instructing Abraham to sacrafice his child Issac in order to test his faith (Genesis 22).
Any link to the video footage?
Here's a link to a thread where an alert freeper has compiled all the info he (she?) can find about this event, with background on Marcavage:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1304823/posts
I admit it. I never thought this would really happen. I'm shocked.
Kind of related. I was driving down route 9 in Wellesley Sunday (a posh, PC town in Massachusetts) and pro-life pickets had set up along the road. I've never seen one on route 9 --ever. There were about 8 people along one side of the road holding huge, 3' x 5' signs, including a photo of a dismembered baby. It was great. Fortunately they weren't charged with "hate speech," as far as I know.
I've been to the next world in a brief vision, would you like to hear about it?
First vision : sense that a higher being is behind me, pushing me forward : scene : farmyard, shovels, rakes, wheel barrows, etc just sitting there, as if everyone is gone. Suddenly everyone is back to work. I ask a young girl, where was everyone? New Jerusalem she said... Second vision : starts out as sort of a pollution movie(in the last REM-dream before waking up): big sewer pipe dumping into a stream bed, but its BLOOD pouring out. Dark red pit, human bodies being thrown at a blizzard rate into a pile of bodies/parts of bodies, some still alive scrambling around...houses with plastic sheeting over them, people huddling in FEAR inside. Grocery store(with auto-opening doors, big windows): invisible force like maybe a HUGE eagle SMASHES through the windows, RIPS people to shreds with invisible claws and into the pit they go. Satan on TV(born in a sheet metal shed like Jean Dixon said)...terrifying vision...it even ran on AFTER I had woken up...took 2 cups of coffee to make it quit. That was 1977 or so, since then, as a scientist, I've figured out how the 3 1/2 years of darkness happens(clue-ozone hole and solar UVB)and the Richter 15 earthquake(clue-magnetic field and Jesus' statement of the lightning flashing from the east even unto the west). Wanna hear details?
Yes, provide more details. I heard that scientists have found a major earthquake fault running through Jerusalem. I haven't yet studied Revelation - only skimmed parts of it.
Yes, Hal Lindsay in his book : The Late Great Earth also mentions an old earthquake fault running under the temple mount in Jerusalem, part of the rift/fault line between the plates running from the afar triangle in africa and up into asia minor. I wouldn't put it past the israelis to "help" that fault along a bit with maybe a bit of water-grease(to get rid of the Dome of the Rock, so they can build the 3rd temple). The dead sea results from that faulting/slip. There is also an artesian spring that supplies most of the fresh water for Damascus that results from water-rich rock(granite)being squeezed by those same tectonic forces deep underground. Then there's the "zipper" effect of earthquakes that move along a fault line. It is thought that the zipper effect was responsible for the fall of Jerico's walls as the stress was relieved in a series along the north-south fault line in biblical times(not Joshua's trumpets). Currently another "zipper" is being un-zipped(east to west)in turkey, and the next ZIP will be just off the coast of istanbul within the next few years(SELL all real estate investments there, NOW). Ok, the ozone hole and 3 1/2 years of darkness, mentioned in the old testament as well as Revelation : somehow the ozone layer over the NORTH pole collapses(well below 300 dobson units-ie, 300 parts/billion of O3). As you may know, ozone is our natural "sunscreen". UVA is the longer waves just above violet=our normal suntan rays. UVB is shorter wavelengths and would give us far more sunBURN but O3 blocks most of UVB. UVC rays are essentially soft X-rays=deeply penetrating and quickly fatal with, say, 3-4 hours exposure. O3 blocks virtually all of UVC. So, if O3 layer collapses UVB and UVC will sunBURN trees/grass/even the photoplankton layer in the ocean=1/3 of all green growies in the northern hemisphere BURN UP via solar radiation. Then forest fires explode everywhere(look at how much forested land is north of 45 deg N latitude). At first the smoke/gas/micron sized soot roars southeastward but then hits the SAM wall(Spin Angular Momentum)at 30 deg N lat where the stronger easterlies(trade winds)slam into the westerlies(of the central hadley cell)(this is why hurricanes swing northward at about 30 deg n lat.)and thus are shoved upward to the tropopause and back toward the north. Then, because of the coriolis effect(earth is spinning, remember?)this HUGE cloud is rightward deflected and into a hurricane-like eyewall of soot/gas/dust swirling around the pole at the arctic circle where the tropopause(boundary layer between lower troposphere and upper stratosphere)is only 5 miles up. That means countless mega-tons of micron-fine soot is injected directly into the stratosphere where the winds are LAMINAR. From nuclear winter studies(strategic nuclear war aftermath)it is well known that it takes just 3 1/2 years for that soot to s l o w l y settle out of the stratosphere. This is in fact the main reason why the USSR is no more : they DIE too with an all-out nuc exchange. Then you can calc the die-off rate of 7 billion people...Ok, tomorrow, Richter 15+/-...
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