Posted on 04/09/2021 6:35:24 PM PDT by marshmallow
For Rev. Mahoney, who has spent decades fighting for human rights in China and Hong Kong, the restrictions on First Amendment rights at the U.S. Capitol, and in American culture more broadly, are eerily reminiscent of incursions made by the Chinese Communist Party against Hong Kong democracy.
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 8, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – The Presbyterian minister who filed a federal lawsuit after being denied permission to hold a Good Friday service at the U.S. Capitol has no plans to stop fighting.
Reverend Patrick Mahoney, an ordained minister in the Reformed Presbyterian Church, now aims to amend his original complaint and apply to hold a Pentecost prayer service at the same location in May.
He anticipates bringing the issue back before the federal courts.
“This is really quite a large case,” Mahoney said in a phone interview Wednesday. “It’ll have a major impact not just on D.C. but around the nation.”
On February 2, weeks after razor-wire fences and National Guard units were installed around the Capitol following the January 6 riot, Mahoney applied for a permit to hold his traditional Good Friday prayer vigil on the Lower Western Terrace of the U.S. Capitol.
The vigil has been an annual tradition for over three decades, including last year during the first weeks of the coronavirus pandemic.
However on March 24 of this year Mahoney’s request to hold the service was rejected.
So on March 30, the Center for American Liberty, led by CEO and attorney Harmeet Dhillon, filed a First Amendment lawsuit on Rev. Mahoney’s behalf, naming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Vice President Kamala Harris, and the U.S. Capitol Police Board as defendants.
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Tear down this wall!!
Yawn. Congress has plenary authority over the Capitol grounds. If we had a media the image of the home of our republic being surrounded by barbed wire would be played day and night as evidence of the death of the republic. But it won’t and this lawsuit will go exactly nowhere
Can’t be more obvious that the WH is occupied by an illicit regime that’s afraid of the people. All dictatorial regimes wall themselves in and order the military to protect them and take control of the media to have it lie about all of the crimes. But apparently, if you’re in control of it all, you can commit no crimes.
To blazes with Fort Pelosi! Wait until the House and Senate are in full session and weld the gates shut.
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