UK: Silent Prayer No Longer a "Crime"
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Recently, police has arrested Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, Father Sean Gough and Adam Smith-Connor for praying in silence near an abortion clinic, but the courts later cleared these police victims. Now, Braverman, wants to improve public confidence in policing.
Vaughan-Spruce expressed her delight at Braverman's statement and said that silent prayer was a fundamental principle of a free democracy, "Yet I have been arrested twice for doing no more than that”.
If Vaughan-Spruce had been shouting about climate ideology on the street, she would not have been arrested, her lawyer added.
The problem of criminalising support for mothers around abortion clinics remains. Praying out loud or visibly, backed by religious freedom, is still "illegal" there.
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