Army Veteran Fined for Silent Prayer
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 1 February 2023
⏱️ 1 minutes
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Just a month after a woman was arrested for praying silently outside an abortion clinic, police in the U.K. have fined army veteran Adam Smith-Connor for the same "crime."
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| 0:00.0 | With a woman at look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with a point. |
| 0:04.6 | Just a month after a woman was arrested for praying silently outside an abortion clinic, |
| 0:08.7 | police in the UK have now fined Army veteran Adam Smith-Conner for the same so-called prime, |
| 0:14.0 | this time near a clinic in Bermuth. |
| 0:16.2 | Authorities inform Smith-Conner that praying was a violation of a public order that prohibits |
| 0:20.2 | acts of approval or disapproval, including silent prayer near a protected space. |
| 0:26.1 | When asked why he was praying Smith-Conner explained, quote, 22 years ago, I drove my ex-girlfriend |
| 0:30.8 | to a facility and paid for her to have an abortion. |
| 0:34.0 | Consequences of my actions that day came back to grieve me years later. |
| 0:37.0 | When I realized I had lost my son Jacob to an abortion, I had paid for. |
| 0:40.6 | Recently I stood outside a similar facility and prayed to God for Jacob for other babies |
| 0:44.7 | who've lost their lives to abortion for their grieving families and for the abortion |
| 0:48.1 | clinic staff. |
| 0:49.1 | Look, no law will change what abortion is, nor can it negate the harm that it causes. |
| 0:54.3 | For the call since then, I'm John Stone Street. |
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