This is where the UK has gone, far down the anti-Christian path. A woman was arrested for standing in silence outside of an abortion clinic, the BPAS Robert Clinic in Kings Norton, Birmingham, and praying. It appears that no other offence was committed, not even loitering, which is not merely being in a place, but looking as if one is about to commit an offence. Merely standing in one spot is not illegal, provided that one does not sleep outside, as proscribed by the Vagrancy Act 1824. Therefore, what we have in this case is a thought crime. Jeremiah Igunnubole, Legal Counsel has said on this: “ A mature democracy should be able to differentiate between criminal conduct and the peaceful exercise of constitutionally protected rights. Isabel, a woman of good character, and who has tirelessly served her community by providing charitable assistance to vulnerable women and children, has been treated no better than a violent criminal. The recent increase in buffer zone legislation and orders is a watershed moment in our country. We must ask ourselves whether we are a genuinely democratic country committed to protecting the peaceful exercise of the right to freedom of speech. We are at serious risk of mindlessly sleepwalking into a society that accepts, normalises, and even promotes the “tyranny of the majority.”
