AFRICAN AMERICAN PASTOR SENT TO JAIL FOR OFFERING
ABORTION ALTERNATIVES ON PUBLIC SIDEWALK
OAKLAND, Calif.: Today the Rev. Walter Hoye of Berkeley, California, was ordered to serve 30 days in county jail by Judge Stuart Hing of the Alameda Superior Court. Rev. Hoye had been found guilty on January 15, 2009, of unlawfully approaching two persons entering an abortion clinic in Oakland. Judge Hing had also ordered him to stay one hundred yards away from the abortion clinic for three years. However, Rev. Hoye refused this term of probation and would not agree to a stay-away order. Therefore, the judge denied the defense motion to stay the sentence pending appeal. Mr. Hoye was taken into custody from the courtroom. (click her for more)
Last week, I walked the halls of congress with Rev.Hoye. We met with pro-life congressmen who prayed for him and congressional black caucus members who did nothing for him. It is a shame that the CBC brags about being the conscience of the congress but its current leader Barbara Lee (who represents the district of Rev. Hoye's church) would not even return his calls. I personally went to her office with Walter Hoyes wife. Her staff scarcely acknowledged us and never got back to us.
Every minister in the nation should be outraged. Every defender of free speech should be concernced. When a person's first amendment rights are not guarenteed. We all should decry, "a threat to justice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." MLK
FREE WALTER HOYE!!!
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