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FAITH UNDER FIRE Germany silences pro-lifers, homeschoolers, creationists Crime is 'incitement of the people,' court rules in ordering prison term Posted: June 28, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Chelsea Schilling © 2007 WorldNetDaily.com A 55-year-old Lutheran pastor has been found guilty of "volksverhetzung" or "incitement of the people" by a German court and will spend a year in jail after an Erlangen court claimed he made a statement denying the Holocaust suffered by the Jews at the hands of Nazi-Germany during World War II. Johannes Lerle compared Germany's abortion rate of 150,000 annually to the murder of Jews in Auschwitz...

NAMUR, Belgium, June 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Bishop André-Mutien Léonard of Namur has been accused of the crime of “homophobia” for allegedly calling homosexuals “abnormal”.During an April 3 interview with the weekly magazine Télé Moustique, Leonard said that his position on homosexuality agreed with Freud’s theory of blocked psychological development. Reported in the Belgium news agency Le Soir, the bishop referred to homosexuality, saying, “It is an imperfectly developed stage of human sexuality which contradicts its interior logic.”According to the interviewer, he continued, "Homosexuals have encountered a block in their normal psychological development, which makes them abnormal.”Le Soir reports...