{"id":865,"date":"2009-03-27T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2009\/03\/is-this-a-crime.html"},"modified":"2009-03-27T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T07:30:00","slug":"is-this-a-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2009\/03\/is-this-a-crime.html","title":{"rendered":"Is this a crime?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Take a look at the video below:<\/div>\n

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It depicts Baptist pastor Walter Hoye protesting outside an abortion clinic in California, while clinic escorts attempt to block his sign with blank pieces of cardboard.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Hoye was arrested and his now in jail, according to the National Catholic Register<\/a>: <\/p>\n

Sometimes, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very hard not to think the world has turned completely upside down.<\/p>\n

Black Baptist pastor Walter Hoye currently languishes in jail in Oakland. You can view Rev. Hoye\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153crime\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in the above video: Peacefully praying and bearing witness on a public sidewalk outside an abortion facility in Oakland, Calif.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, abortionist George Tiller of Kansas remains free and even socializes with pro-abortion Catholic leaders like Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, President Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nominee as Secretary of Health and Human Services \u00e2\u20ac\u201d despite the fact Tiller has killed tens of thousands of unborn babies and is currently standing trial for allegedly flouting the legal requirements for late-term abortions in Kansas.<\/p>\n

Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, commented yesterday about this seeming inversion of sane law and morality.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Rev. Walter Hoye of Berkeley, California, has just begun serving a sentence which is blatantly unjust,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Father Pavone said in a press release. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Rev. Hoye did no violence, but rather attempted to stop violence by his prayerful presence at an abortion mill in Oakland. He was right to refuse to promise not to approach the abortion facility. By intervening for these children, he simply seeks to fulfill the command, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcDo to others what you would have them do to you.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 No government can put a cap on peaceful efforts to save children from violence.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Meanwhile, abortionist George Tiller in Kansas, who has performed over 80,000 abortions (which is over 20,000 more lives taken then were lost in the Vietnam War) is on trial for having failed to follow the requirements of Kansas law for late-term abortions. This man should be in jail. Whatever the outcome of the trial now underway, the fact is that jail is the only appropriate place for \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcdoctors\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 who kill children. I commend the efforts of Troy Newman and of so many others who, over the years, have exposed the atrocities committed by George Tiller.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Life Legal Defense Fund, meantime, has more details<\/a>: <\/p>\n

Late yesterday the Rev. Walter Hoye of Berkeley, California was found guilty of unlawfully approaching abortion clinic patients at a clinic in Oakland. Rev. Hoye is the plaintiff in the lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the ordinance under which he was prosecuted.<\/p>\n

On May 13, 2008, subsequent to the filing of the lawsuit challenging the ordinance, Rev. Hoye was arrested for allegedly violating the newly-enacted law. Rev. Hoye is an African-American pastor who feels a special calling to work for the end of the genocide-by-abortion taking place in the African-American community. As part of his efforts, he stands in front of an abortion clinic in Oakland with leaflets offering abortion alternatives and a sign reading, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Jesus loves you and your baby. Let us help.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Despite the video tape the defense presented at trial showing that prosecution witnesses conjured up phantom patients whom Rev. Hoye had allegedly harassed, as well as claiming that he threatened two escorts and the clinic director, the jury rendered the guilty verdict.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is a miscarriage of justice and we will appeal this verdict. After speaking with several jurors after the verdict was read, it is clear that the court’s failure and outright refusal to instruct the jury regarding the key elements of the crime led to the erroneous conviction of Rev. Hoye,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d commented Allison Aranda, Staff Counsel for Life Legal Defense Foundation, who is representing Rev. Hoye. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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