The last post was Christians evangelizing at the Gay Pride festival in Atlanta. Now it’s Christians handing out tracts in York, Pennsylvania.
Pro-life protesters are taking their case to federal court because they claim York, Pa., police repeatedly violated their free speech rights while they were handing out tracts and preaching outside the city’s Planned Parenthood clinic .
John McTernan, Edward D. Snell, John Wood and Luanne Ferguson have filed a civil suit against York police for being “chilled, frustrated and deterred in the exercise of their First Amendment activities due to the city’s policy of ignoring First Amendment rights.”
Their complaint states, “By denying plaintiffs the right to access public streets with other like-minded people, [York police] denied plaintiffs the right of assembly on account of the content of their message.”
Attorney Dennis Boyle represents the pro-life advocates in the case.
“Essentially we have a series of arrests by the York City Police Department that have gone to the state, and the pro-life people have been found not guilty in the state court system,” he said. “So we’ve filed a federal court suit to prevent these unlawful arrests from continuing. It is just the police officers basically trying to make life inconvenient for the pro-life people here.”
Seriously, if the pro-abortion crowd are the ones who are right about the issue, why can’t they win the debate in the free market of ideas? By silencing those who disagree with them, they don’t realize that they are inadvertently conceding the point.
Once again, when your political heroes are Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez…