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German court sentences Lutheran to year in jail for supporting life
Last week, a German court sentenced a 55-year old Lutheran pastor to one year in jail for Volksverhetzung (incitement of the people) because he compared the killing of the unborn in contemporary Germany to the holocaust. Next week, the Council of Europe is going to vote on a resolution imposing Darwinism as Europes official ideology. The European governments are asked to fight the expression of creationist opinions, such as young earth and intelligent design theories. According to the Council of Europe these theories are undemocratic and a threat to human rights.Without legalized abortion the number of German children would increase annually by at least 150,000 which is the number of legal abortions in birth dearth Germany. Pastor Johannes Lerle compared the killing of the unborn to the killing of the Jews in Auschwitz during the Second World War. On 14 June, a court in Erlangen ruled that, in doing so, the pastor had incited the people because his statement was a denial of the holocaust of the Jews in Nazi-Germany. Hence, Herr Lerle was sentenced to one year in jail. Earlier, he had already spent eight months in jail for calling abortionists professional killers an allegation which the court ruled to be slanderous because, according to the court, the unborn are not humans. I think we haven't quite convinced them of the value of free speech yet. Funny how Germans in the US can handle it but Germans in Germany can't. Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-06-24 |
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