Posted on 12/03/2002 1:28:13 PM PST by That Subliminal Kid
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BREAKING NEWS Tuesday, December 4, 2002 Court Orders Municipality To Pay Over $39,000 in Michigan Pro-Life Case In a case that has drawn national attention, Detroit Federal District Judge Victoria A. Roberts has ordered that Plymouth Township, Michigan, pay monetary damages, attorneys? fees, and costs totaling $39,545.15 and has permanently enjoined the Township from interfering with the rights of pro-life demonstrators to display signs of aborted babies. The case began this past July in Plymouth Township when pro-life advocates began to demonstrate against Michigan Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate, Jennifer Granholm, and her ?pro-choice? stance, on the public sidewalk in front of the church she attends. The demonstrators displayed various signs, including signs that depicted images of aborted babies. Plymouth Township Police Officers seized the aborted baby signs on the basis that they were tantamount to pornography. The Thomas More Law Center quickly filed a lawsuit in federal court on behalf of three of the pro-life advocates who were prohibited from displaying the aborted baby signs. The Law Center sought an emergency temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against Plymouth Township officials. Within 24 hours after the lawsuit was filed, Federal Judge Roberts held a hearing and granted the emergency temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction in favor of the three pro-life advocates, permitting them to display their aborted baby signs in public. Judge Roberts also found that there was a strong likelihood that the Thomas More Law Center?s clients would prevail in showing that the police had violated their constitutional rights. Based on Judge Roberts?s order, the pro-life advocates resumed their peaceful protest without interference from the Plymouth Township police. This past week, Judge Roberts signed a consent judgment ruling that the First Amendment protects the display of aborted baby signs and that the Plymouth Township Police Officers violated the United States Constitution when they prevented the pro-life advocates from displaying the aborted baby signs in public and when they confiscated the signs without consent, a warrant, or probable cause. As a result of the lawsuit, the three pro-life advocates received a total of $23,000 in monetary damages. Thomas More Law Center attorneys Edward L. White III and Robert J. Muise handled the case on behalf of the pro-life advocates. |
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Are you insane?
I can't say I'm particularly militant either way but, Christ, you are delusional if you believe that these do anything but make some people that are likely to abort a baby less likely.
Sure, it's unpleasant to look at, but if you're shallow enough to swallow your convictions over abortion based on some protesters in-your-face style, you are beneath contempt.
Of course the flip side is that you're really very heavily pro-choice and are just trolling...but, nah, that couldn't possibly be the case, could it?
You do live in a fantasy world. Oh, that's right you are Chancellor Palpatine. You and partial-birth abortion Bill Klintoon are birds of a feather in this rooster fight.
But to insist that other people and their children have to put up with your crap and your definitions? No way.
My mother, bless her heart, voted the wrong way until I got her to connect with folks who told her and showed her what others would not. What is the complaint here? Time magazine just recently published fetal images and abortion is a legal practice everywhere.
Which has priority, the "experience," or the God being worshipped? Catholics are by definition pro-life. It's part of the total package. Folks who profane their profession of faith by slaughtering those tiny icons of deity -- either in person, or by proxy -- need to be confronted with what they are standing for. This demonstration did not happen in front of some generic church, but in front of the hypocrite's church. Shame is a very useful enforcement mechanism, and we need to use it from time to time when those who claim to be of us are actually stabbing us in the back.
But, this is a God thing, and you may have trouble understanding anything more important than "feelings," or worship "experience."
He's correct. It drives away moderates who tend to agree with the message because it lacks any sense of civility. Personally, I wouldn't support, in anyway, the group that sponsors those banners anymore than I'd support the anti-smoking campaign that has the TV commercial where a human lung is cut open or the PETA billboards of slaughter houses.
The best pro-life billboard I've seen is one in Seattle, by a church, that has a picture of a 1 year old boy with the caption "My grandma says I have my daddy's eyes"
That billboard is far more effective than the attempts to gross people out.
(And don't go off about "But abortion isn't civil, blah blah blah" because that's a secundum quid.)
It would appear that CP is concerned for the children who might see the images and then ask questions, while PC has forgotten the children dismembered in abortuaries who will never see even a glimmer of a sunset or hear the faintest of bird song. But then, CP won't have to explain anything to those children ... while here on this plane.
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