By Paul Steven Ghiringhelli
A pro-life leader faces up to two years in prison and as much as $4,000 in fines for offering sidewalk counseling at an Oakland, Calif., abortion clinic. Pastor Walter B. Hoye, founder of the Issues4Life Foundation, is to be sentenced today after being found guilty on Jan. 15 of “unlawful approach” under an Oakland city ordinance that bars picketers from coming within eight feet of women entering an abortion clinic.
After waiting nearly five days in Birmingham, Alabama, the Survivors are now back on their nationwide abortion awareness campaign with their video equipment in hand. The property was illegally seized by police during the arrests of nine of the team members last Thursday. The team spent more than 14 hours in jail for simply standing on a public sidewalk holding a sign and handing out literature in front of Parker High School. Adding insult to injury, when the team was finally released Friday morning, the police stalled the release of the team’s camera equipment and video recordings of the event at Parker High School.
Birmingham, Alabama — Kortney Blythe, Director of Survivors Campus Life Tours, held a news conference in front of the Birmingham Police Department Central Headquarters at 1710 1st Avenue North at 12:00 noon on Monday. She demanded the release of the Survivors’ cameras and videos that were confiscated and held by the Birmingham police following the Survivors’ arrests last week Thursday.
A California evangelist is challenging an advertising campaign offering ” praises” to evolutionist Charles Darwin by countering with a publicity effort of his own.
A Carrollton atheist couple is trying to remove the “moment of silence” from Texas classrooms.
Barack Obama will attend a private prayer service on the morning of his inauguration at the historic St. John’s Episcopal Church, according to the Washington Post.
