Pro-life activist jailed for praying silently outside Michigan abortion clinic appeals to Supreme Court

[Michie]

A pro-life activist who has been convicted and sentenced to 90 days in jail for silently praying in a public area near a Michigan abortion facility is calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in his case.

Matthew Connolly, 42, was convicted with violating a vague ordinance in the city of Southfield that criminalizes behaviors causing “annoyance” or “disquiet” in public spaces, according to attorneys with religious liberty firm Advocates for Faith & Freedom.

According to a petition filed July 28, Connolly never entered the abortion clinic, raised his voice or disrupted any activity. Described by law enforcement as “peaceful,” he was arrested while kneeling in prayer in a public common area, attorneys said. After refusing a probation condition that would bar him from engaging in pro-life speech within 500 feet of any abortion facility nationwide — which attorneys argued could potentially restrict access to medical care at hospitals offering abortions — Connolly was jailed and fined.

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Pro-life activist jailed for praying silently outside Michigan abortion clinic appeals to Supreme Court

A pro-life activist who has been convicted and sentenced to 90 days in jail for silently praying in a public area near a Michigan abortion facility is calling on the U S Supreme Court to intervene in

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[RileyG]

So ridiculous. So much for freedom of religion or freedom of speech!

 

[com7fy8]

But what did Jesus say about standing on the corner and not going into your closet?

Kneeling on a sidewalk can look like you are having a medical emergency.

So, what is the official thing about this, then?

Prayer can reach around the world.

There are houses where families are dysfunctional. There can be where kids are brought up to become abortionists. So, why not kneel on the front lawns of houses with dysfunctional families????

Am I being facetious or sarcastic?

Arguing and complaining are anti-Christ >

"Do all things without complaining and disputing," (Philippians 2:14)

So, relationships can break down because of arguing and complaining which are anti-love. And then people can also break down into immorality and possible resulting pregnancies. So, you can go after what is helping to bring about abortions, by standing against arguing and complaining, and other anti-love things which help take people down so then they can do worse and worse things.

And these things happen in houses, to start off, often enough.

And there is beauty discrimination which can make a man foolish and weak so then he can get into immorality and not have sense of responsibility. Yet, I hear not a word about the culture of beauty discrimination > males are not being taught how to love any and all women equally without discrimination. Even victims of racial discrimination can themselves be involved in and weakened and degraded by beauty discrimination. And then in such anti-love condition they can get women pregnant for abortion places to harvest.

So, why go only after the end-point problem of the actual abortions? Go after what has been helping to destroy people so they can do it.

You can not have a dollar unless you have one hundred cents. Every cent is essential. And you can not have an abortion without its ingredients.

Every cent contributes. Every argument, every complaint, every bit of beauty discrimination, every bit of unforgiveness . . . all contributes to Satan's kingdom, including what certain people praying might continue to do in secret, themselves.

So we need real prayer, then, however this is done, that God knows.

And God uses example >

"nor as being lords over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock." (1 Peter 5:3)