“Sentenced to jail for engaging in peaceful free speech”
“It is absolutely incredible that in America an individual can be sentenced to jail for engaging in peaceful free speech activity on a public sidewalk,” said Allison Aranda, staff counsel for Life Legal Defense Foundation, which is representing Hoye. “Rev. Hoye is being singled out for particularly harsh punishment because he refused to agree not to offer help to women considering abortion. Where is the justice in that?”
For some time there has been tremendous social pressure to silence voices that buck the government-abortion establishment. Laws meant to do all but deny the right to free speech were put in place. These, in the end, proved insufficient. So in places where abortionists hold power of local government, laws that crossed the line and actually deny free speech were enacted. In California, a Baptist pastor has been wrongfully jailed for exercising his right to speak. Folks, if we do not stand up and resist injustices like this one, we can kiss the idea of being a free country goodbye. Perhaps it is already too late. Is it?
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