This is similar to what I was talking about a few years ago when 17 Christians were arrested in Pennsylvania. I was arguing with the ACLU shill lawyer and eventual writer for the Smirking Chimp- Mike Whitney. This anti-Christian anti-conservative sentiment has grown to epic proportions under our marxist-in-chief; although it’s been going on for a long time and either glossed over as a nonissue, or underreported. Let’s go back in time for a moment and remember that this occurred in 2004:
Eight charges were filed against the protesters, including three felonies and five misdemeanors. The charges were: criminal conspiracy, possession of instruments of crime, reckless endangerment of another person, ethnic intimidation, riot, failure to disperse, disorderly conduct, and obstructing highways.
The “ethnic intimidation†charge, explains Robert Knight, writing for Concerned Women for America’s Culture and Family Institute, was made possible by Pennsylvania’s Ethnic Intimidation and Institutional Vandalism Act – that state’s “hate crimes” law – to which the newest “victim” category of “sexual orientation” was recently added.
Although some of the charges reportedly have been dropped since the 11 defendants were released, the Culture and Family Institute report quotes Philadelphia Police spokeswoman Officer Maria Ibrahim as saying the remaining charges are “criminal conspiracy,” “failure to disperse,” “disorderly conduct” and “obstructing a highway.”
Responding to the riot charge, the group’s statement said: “Despite the fact that our behavior was above reproach and we were attacked by a mob of whistle-blowing, obscenity-screaming God haters, the Christians, and only the Christians, were charged.”
Said Dennis Green, director of Life and Liberty Ministries: “The Scriptures are filled with accounts of faithful followers of the Messiah who proclaimed the Gospel despite severe persecution. We are called upon and commanded to do no less. To shrink back would not be biblical Christianity.”
The organization Repent America sponsored the protest.
“This is one of the most remarkable and unlawful actions by police that I have ever witnessed,” said Michael Marcavage, director of Repent America. “Their blatant disregard of the law by allowing hecklers to impede our way, block our message and then arrest us, is inexcusable, especially by police officers who are specially trained to protect civil rights.
“Christians are now being labeled as ‘haters’ and any speech that homosexuals perceive to be intimidating, such as our Christian witness at OutFest, makes them a prime target for ‘hate crimes legislation.’”
That group in Pennsylvania hadn’t even opened their mouths – at the Homosexual Activist Rally they attended. The leftist version of ‘social justice’ is a borg-like one-way tunnel vision. And of course, with these radicals you have to know that civil liberties like the ones we’ve known our entire lives – are being thrown in the garbage now. They are picking and choosing what they’re going to follow – but what we have is a government that has no respect for the three branches, or even the law itself and especially the bill of rights.
They have infiltrated the churches, but that shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, either – because years ago a socialist methodist pastor in Park Ridge in a sporty convertible swept Hillary Clinton off her feet…and that was just the beginning of her love affair with socialism and communism.
THESE PEOPLE ARE NOW MAKING DECISIONS ABOUT OUR LIVES and make no mistake; their ideology is unpleasant and doesn’t allow for any ‘freedom of speech’. Read Malkin’s entire post at this link about the “FCC/left-wing church alliance to silence conservative critics of illegal immigration through “hate speech†regulation.” That’s a new one – that last I knew, they were using the thought crimes and hate crimes justification to terrorize people who dare speak out about the health risks of homosexual behavior.
