Posted on 02/16/2023 8:30:25 AM PST by ebb tide
A U.K. priest charged after praying outside of an abortion clinic said free speech is being threatened in his country.
"Nobody should be criminalized for the thoughts that they're having in their own head, and this is what I was threatened with arrest for," Father Sean Gough told "Tucker Carlson Tonight" on Wednesday. "I wasn't actually arrested, but I was interrogated for it and questioned about the thoughts that I was having in my own head, my prayers to God, and then I was charged for doing just this."
Attorney Lorcan Price, who described the situation as "sinister," said established censorship zones, which stretch for 160 yards from a clinic, prohibit citizens from praying and offering to help women.
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"Perhaps the most absurd charge that was laid against me is that I was also charged for having a bumper sticker on my car which says ‘Unborn Lives Matter’ and I parked this within the censorship zone, which the local council had established," he said.
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Ping
If there are even a thousand Christians left in Birmingham.
How about in all of Britain, maybe?
He should have shaken the dirt off his sandals and called down fire and brimstone upon them; nothing else seems to work!
"Why do you care?"
"Am I being charged with a crime?"
"Are some prayers more legal than others?"
"What authority permits you to ask about my silent thoughts?"
"If you have determined that some prayers are a crime, then I invoke my 5th Amendment Rights."
I have long maintained that Britain, and the world, would be better off today if we had stayed out of it and let the Kaiser roll over England.
If the government arrests someone for praying to God, can this be used as evidence that the government confirms God’s existence?
All “hate crimes” are “THOUGHT CRIMES”...and typically only whites are charged.
I’m not answering any questions without my attorney present.
we sure he wasn’t praying for altar boys?
What is your denomination?
don’t have one, why would you care?
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