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Since When Did Praying Become A Crime?


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2 minutes ago, stylefree said:

https://www.gbnews.uk/news/watch-outrage-as-woman-praying-silently-is-arrested-in-uk-street-taken-away-by-police-for-a-thought crime 

 

I would have thought police had more serious matters to deal with 

Arrested for praying: Isabel Vaughan-Spruce said she was appalled
 
Arrested for praying: Isabel Vaughan-Spruce said she was appalled   PA

Vaughan-Spruce was formally arrested for breaking a Public Space Protection Order around the BPAS Robert facility in Kings Norton, an abortion clinic which has been the target for pro-life protestors in the past. She has been charged with breaching the order on four different occasions.

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1 minute ago, The_DADDY said:

Arrested for silently praying near an abortion clinic?

Hmmm, not intimidating or harassing or shouting but stood silently...

 

Ignoring the fact she had breached the order 4 times previously then?

 

Again, she wasnt arrested for "praying".

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1 minute ago, The_DADDY said:

Arrested for silently praying near an abortion clinic?

Hmmm, not intimidating or harassing or shouting but stood silently...

 

No. She was arrested for breaking a PSPO. She seems to have done so repeatedly.

 

Anyway, she’s been charged now, so the courts can decide.

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Just now, sibon said:

No. She was arrested for breaking a PSPO. She seems to have done so repeatedly.

 

Anyway, she’s been charged now, so the courts can decide.

I'm sure any punishment will be proportionate and not in any way over the top to send a message.

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Just now, The_DADDY said:

I'm sure any punishment will be proportionate and not in any way over the top to send a message.

I’m sure that it will be.

 

But, as we don’t really know what she’d been doing, maybe we should wait and see. I very much doubt that she was arrested and charged merely for standing quietly, alone in the street. 
 

The court case should be interesting.

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