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Judge Declines To Sentence 3 Catholic Gay Activists
Washington Post ^ | 2-1-2003 | Arthur Santana

Posted on 02/01/2003 6:54:33 AM PST by Notwithstanding

Three Catholic gay activists were convicted of unlawful entry yesterday in D.C. Superior Court by a judge who then declined to sentence them, told them she was sympathetic and went on to apologize on behalf of the Catholic Church.

Judge Mildred M. Edwards, who is Catholic, told the activists that she had to convict them but that she would do something she had not done in 15 years on the bench -- dispense with a sentence.

"Tremendous violence was done to you . . . when the Body of Christ was denied to you," Edwards said, referring to the contention of the three that refusal of Holy Communion had prompted their actions. "As a member of your church, I ask you to forgive the church."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: catholiclist; dramaqueen; homosexualagenda; judicialabuse; prisoners
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To: Notwithstanding
This judge should be impeached.
21 posted on 02/01/2003 11:49:16 AM PST by yendu bwam
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To: Notwithstanding
A classic case of a Gay Agenda mole (Judge) subverting the law of the land in order to blatantly recycle it's perverted soldiers back into the Culture War front lines.

"Judge" Mildred M. Edwards should be banished to a bench somewhere on a planet more befitting her own personal agenda -- Uranus.

22 posted on 02/01/2003 11:54:28 AM PST by F16Fighter
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To: Notwithstanding
Has this judge been to Confession lately? The sin of not doing her job.
23 posted on 02/01/2003 11:55:40 AM PST by Desdemona
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To: Notwithstanding
"There comes a time in the history of every people when they become so pathologically soft and tender that they actually side with those elements of their society which harms them..."-A Great Historian 1888.
24 posted on 02/01/2003 11:57:22 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (Further, the statement assumed)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
"There comes a time in the history of every people when they become so pathologically soft and tender that they actually side with those elements of their society which harms them..."-A Great Historian 1888.

What a profound statement......can you please share the name of the historian? I would like to read his work.

25 posted on 02/01/2003 1:32:59 PM PST by JulieRNR21 (Take W-04........Across America!)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
The homosexual agenda never takes a break, never takes a day off. They are winning. We must be vigilant

Many great comments and observations. Reminds me of the time during which Hitler came to power, the judicial system became his private fiefdom.

I am thinking that it's time for conservatives to do more public protests and maybe even civil disobediance - Maybe some of you have heard about that vile movie Coppola (Crappola?) is planning to make about the pedophile Kinsey starring Liam Neeson? I would love to picket that movie. I am getting more and more angry about perverts and Somodites attempting to take over God's world.

26 posted on 02/01/2003 1:55:16 PM PST by First Amendment
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To: YOMO
Bench legislation at its finest....
27 posted on 02/01/2003 4:57:29 PM PST by CatAtomic
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To: pram
most people are pastsies

while many issues concern me, I try ti hoot and holler about abortion and also about pubic schools

I am glad others hoot and holler about other things

its the folks who sit on their fat asses and bitch about things that makes me want to explode - they actually fry me more than those who are truly ignorant
28 posted on 02/01/2003 5:33:00 PM PST by Notwithstanding (Are you pro-abortion because you were involved with one?)
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To: Notwithstanding
I like the Yeats poem - (one part is something like this) "the best have no conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity". It's high time to turn the tables. Have you ever seen Scott Lively's website http://www.abidingtruth.com/ ? It is very good and he has a lot to read online. He's one the people who influenced me about the long range dangers of homosexuality - how the so-called "gay" acitivists are really connected with so many other evils.

Ever notice how the homo activitsts are always the loudest pro-abortionists??

29 posted on 02/02/2003 12:44:29 AM PST by First Amendment
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To: madg
Like what you posted.

Would you have a problem with her decision if her track record showed that she did not afford such leniency to any first-time non-violent pro-life protesters?
31 posted on 02/02/2003 6:13:14 PM PST by Notwithstanding (Are you pro-abortion because you were involved with one?)
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To: Notwithstanding
If pro-lifers were guilty of the same crime as the gay activists, the judge would impose hefty fines and prison time.
32 posted on 02/02/2003 6:13:27 PM PST by Kuksool (Fight The Axis of Evil: ACLU, NARAL, NEA)
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To: INSENSITIVE GUY
The judge is essentially saying Christians have civil rights.
33 posted on 02/02/2003 6:16:09 PM PST by Kuksool (Fight The Axis of Evil: ACLU, NARAL, NEA)
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To: Kuksool
Ops! I meant no civil rights. The Left typically condones hate crimes against Christians.
34 posted on 02/02/2003 6:20:04 PM PST by Kuksool (Fight The Axis of Evil: ACLU, NARAL, NEA)
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To: Notwithstanding
The ACLU should be up in arms over this---IF they mean what they say about "separation of church and state."
36 posted on 02/03/2003 6:15:16 AM PST by MrLeRoy ("That government is best which governs least.")
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To: Notwithstanding
"Tremendous violence was done to you . . . when the Body of Christ was denied to you"

Oh for Pete's sake, since when is wanting something and having it denied to you (whether rightly of wrongly) tremendous violence? Tremendous violence was done to me when I didn't get a big raise last month. Where do I sign up?

37 posted on 02/03/2003 6:40:09 AM PST by T Minus Four (and Ed MacMann hasn't called either.....................)
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