Our friend, Pat Mahoney, was arrested recently.
Pat was an eloquent defender of Terri, working himself to exhaustion, not wasting a minute, in doing all he could to help her.
Lest anyone think he deserved it, I was witness in Clearwater, with Pat and his contingent when he was in a public place near the chambers of Judge Greer. Greer had him thrown out even though he did nothing at all outside normal conduct. Even the cops were embarrassed as they illegally escorted Pat out. We were shocked. Pat is a gentle and decent man, just one who will not be pushed around by illegal actions of judges. Pat is fearless in standing up for truth and for Our Lord. That is why he is targeted. Those types hate people who will not compromise their values.
It is easy for us to take for granted the freedoms we have all enjoyed throughout the years with impunity and to figure this right is a given even today. It is not, and can disappear in a heartbeat, no matter how outrageous such actions may appear. This freedom is fragile indeed, not the durable one we presume we have.
We witnessed the killing of Terri and some may have compartmentalized it as a surreal anomaly, something so off the scale, it could not be repeated in our gentle lives. That compartmentalization is dangerously close to denial, for these outrages can and do happen again and again, mostly out of our sight.
(AgapePress) - A federal district judge in Washington, DC, has upheld the arrest of Christian activist Reverend Pat Mahoney, who claims his only crime was an association with the Ten Commandments. He says he couldn't believe the federal judge's decision.
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I(n) this latest case, the Christian activist notes, "I was arrested on a public sidewalk, three years ago, for holding a sign [bearing an inscription] of the Ten Commandments." He says the United States marshal who accosted him that day told him "Reverend Mahoney, you can be here. You just can't hold that sign."
Since Mahoney chose not to surrender his sign, he says he was taken into custody. However, he contends his arrest was a blatant violation of his constitutional rights, since "I was arrested not for my conduct but for my beliefs."
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