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Title: North Carolina Pro-Lifers Sue City After Being Arrested for Prayer Outside of Abortion Clinic
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Big League Politics
URL Source: https://bigleaguepolitics.com/north ... er-outside-of-abortion-clinic/
Published: Apr 5, 2020
Author: Richard Moorhead
Post Date: 2020-04-06 08:04:48 by Deckard
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Views: 748
Comments: 4
A group of North Carolina pro-life activists are suing the city of Greensboro, North Carolina for arresting them as they prayed outside an abortion center in the city. The activists, who belonged to the group Love Life, were arrested in accordance with the city’s coronavirus and social distancing guidelines for the Chinese coronavirus. The activists were arrested last week for violating ‘stay at home’ orders. Merely four of them- no great crowd in which coronavirus would be likely present- were praying outside an abortion center called A Woman’s choice. The Greensboro Police tried repeatedly to get the activists to leave the scene voluntarily before taking them into custody. A police press release on the incident describes four men being charged with violating Greensboro’s Stay at Home ordinance and obstructing a peace officer. Seven pro-life activists who arrived to protest the abortion center the following Monday were arrested by the Greensboro Police as well, demonstrating a willingness to continually arrest those who engage in the protest of the facility. Trending: FLASHBACK: Italian Media Exposed Chinese Experiments to Infect Humans with Coronavirus in 2015 A lawsuit regarding the matter has been filed by the Thomas More Society, accusing the Greensboro Police Department of violating the pro-life demonstrators’ First Amendment rights. Another pro-life activist in Michigan is also filing a lawsuit against Michigan’s Democratic governor for his arrest while safely protesting an abortion center in Detroit alone. If municipalities such as Greenboro want to enforce social distancing and stay at home rules, they need to realize that wide-ranging exceptions need to be made for people to participate in certain religious and political ceremonies. There is no excuse for arresting people for gathering outside in a crowd of four, especially when it’s to express their most valued moral and spiritual principles.
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#1. To: Gatlin, A K A Stone (#0)
Yes there is. People breaking the coronavirus rule are more likely to get sick and spread the virus. Then, when they do, medical staff is burdened - and put at risk - by their irresponsibility. If a law were passed that the fine for failing to practice social distancing is the denial of all medical care for the next six months, then ok. But since that's not the law, and the more pragmatic law is: no groups, no uneccessary gatherings, stay at home, if people just gotta, then they gotta be broken up and arrested. No, the right to protest, or to get together for Church services, does NOT supersede the necessity of protecting medical staff and flattening the curve of the spread. We're talking human lives here. Political opinions and religious opinions need to wait for their gathered expression until the diseases passes over. Most people understand that. The ones who think their causes are more important than the lives of health care staff, well, they get disciplined. It's as simple as that.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestThere is no excuse for arresting people for gathering outside in a crowd of four, especially when it’s to express their most valued moral and spiritual principles.
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