Posted on 04/08/2020 2:51:15 PM PDT by Morgana
Conservative activist David Benham was arrested Saturday for providing counseling outside a North Carolina abortion clinic despite a stay-at-home order amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Benham, who made national headlines after getting dropped by HGTV allegedly for his Christian beliefs, posted a video of the arrest outside the offices of A Preferred Women's Health Center of Charlotte. He alleges officials are using the virus as cover for discriminating against pro-life groups.
"It's government overreach. It's viewpoint discrimination. It's selective enforcement of the COVID law. It's the suppressing of religious expression. It's all those things," Benham told Fox News. "It's just a straight-up breaching of my constitutional rights."
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department pointed to the county attorney, Tyrone Wade, for interpretation of the order. In a statement to Fox News, Wade said "it is reasonable to limit a person's freedom or movement to a gathering of no more than 10 people and a requirement that each person remains at least six feet apart to protect the public," given the state of emergency and public health emergency declarations.
"On Saturday, officers observed approximately 50 protesters congregating outside of the clinic," Wade said. "The gathering was determined to be a violation of mass gatherings in the North Carolina Stay at Home Order."
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The comments on the Fox link under this article are incredible. We have so many unthinking illogical sheeple it’s scary.
They pull out the religious attacks as if it’s a religious argument. Honest science is all you need to defend preborn human beings. Same can be said of the dangers of sodomy. If I stand up and say it’s wrong to engage in a anal sex the leftists say it’s because I’m a religious bigot. Even though medicine proves that the practice will likely reduce your life span by many years. Their hypocrisy knows no limits.
LA Times via Yahoo.
Toxic BS. The rats are going to try to use the virus to cheat in ways we can not even imagine.
A guy was just arrested in New York City for putting a rainbow flag up in Central Park. Clearly they are arresting people who are randomly doing things that don’t follow six feet rule.
That is why I posted this, was hoping you all would see it.
Whats next, “The Two Minutes Hate’’?
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