Posted on 03/07/2023 5:36:08 PM PST by marshmallow
Denver, Colo., Mar 7, 2023 / 16:30 pm Britain’s House of Commons approved legislation Tuesday to create “buffer zones” around abortion facilities that would prohibit a wide range of behavior, including silent prayer.
An amendment to exempt prayer and consensual conversation was voted down by lawmakers, who added the buffer zones to the Public Order Bill.
The final vote came the day after a pro-life woman was arrested in Birmingham for the second time for praying silently in an alleged violation of a local buffer zone law.
Opponents of the legislation decried the bill’s passage as a strike against individual liberty in the United Kingdom.
“Today’s vote marks a watershed moment for fundamental rights and freedoms in our country,” Jeremiah Igunnubole, legal counsel for the ADF UK legal group, said March 7.
“Parliament had an opportunity to reject the criminalization of free thought, which is an absolute right, and embrace individual liberty for all. Instead, Parliament chose to endorse censorship and criminalize peaceful activities such as silent prayer and consensual conversation.”
“Today it’s abortion. Tomorrow it could be another contested matter of political debate,” Igunnubole said. “The principle remains that the government should never be able to punish anyone for prayer, let alone silent prayer, and peaceful and consensual conversation.”
The bill would create a buffer zone of 150 meters, about 492 feet, outside abortion facilities in England and Wales. It bars intimidation, harassment, or interference toward those seeking or providing abortions. Violation would be punished with a fine, a change from a previously proposed penalty that called for a prison sentence. However, the fine is potentially unlimited.
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“UK Parliament Makes it Illegal to Pray Near Abortion Facilities”
Easy solution - have a bunch of Muslims pray at abortion centers instead, as they’re also not into killing babies or mutilating kids (due to gender diaspora).
John Henry Newman predicted it.
“Hitherto the civil Power has been Christian. Even in countries separated from the Church, as in my own, the dictum was in force, when I was young, that: ‘Christianity was the law of the land’.
“Now, everywhere that goodly framework of society, which is the creation of Christianity, is throwing off Christianity. The dictum to which I have referred, with a hundred others which followed upon it, is gone, or is going everywhere; and, by the end of the century, unless the Almighty interferes, it will be forgotten.“
Pray whilst driving by telling not a soul and they’ll never know
That's your solution to the actual real world thought police? Maybe they should send these people to the London Zoo with the lions?
I think I just heard John Locke rolling over in his grave.
Give the bastards time, and they probably will.
If King Charles was not such a liberal dork he might take his role as Defender of the Faith for the Church of England seriously and refuse to give royal assent to this bill which is required (in theory at least) before any bill become law.
The UK is Satanist and deserves the fate of Satanists.
Before she passed away in 2022, Queen Elizabeth II wrote in preparation for her memorial ceremonies and final burial:
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?”
No need to be a martyr
Drive and pray it’s just as effective
The marxist demons LOVE killing babies. They love this above everything else.
It’s not a bad idea. Dress as Muslim women.
“DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!”
Remember when parents would say that....now it’s the law!
They have banned the unbannable...
“Too Late, just happened”.
500 people should walk by and then go to the local police station and confess, mea culpa.
You are perfectly willing to surrender. I cannot help you.
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