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Outrageous: Look What Government Is Doing To This Pro-Life Christian To Silence Him
Pro-life crusader Troy Newman was battling on Thursday to avoid deportation from Australia. The Australian government finally caved in to demands to prevent the president of Operation Rescue from conducting a 10-day speaking tour there.
Initially they planned to send him packing upon his arrival, but now the Australian government has said it will allow Newman to remain in the country for the time being.
“We propose an undertaking this man will not be removed for the next 24 hours,” David Brown, representing Immigration Minister Peter Dutton, said Thursday. “There will be discussions between the parties so that the matters can be resolved.” Right to Life Australia, the group that invited Newman, is working to avert deportation, said its president, Margaret Tighe.
Australia’s high court heard an appeal from Newman to remain. His attorneys said the government’s decision to prevent Newman from coming to Australia was flawed because Newman has never incited violence.
“The basis of the (visa) finding seems to rest solely on the adverse reaction to my client’s presence in Australia,” barrister Richard Knowles said. “There was no question at all that that my client has ever advocated violence.”
As the Australian court pondered the issue, Operation Rescue reacted with anger to Newman’s detention and potential deportation.
“Troy’s unjust treatment by the Australian government is based on a pack of bold-faced lies about his character. This makes him a political prisoner,” said Cheryl Sullenger, Senior Policy Advisor for Operation Rescue. “It’s shocking that the Australian government would take these lies at face value and deny Troy his right to his freedom and free speech.”
“The pro-abortion bullies in Australia who have been slandering Troy Newman to the government have had to stoop to the lowest of lows to silence his message about Planned Parenthood’s criminality and his use of peaceful, law-abiding activism to expose abortion abuses,” said Sullenger.
“Troy has been treated like a criminal even though he has never been convicted of a crime and is being detained and deported based solely on his religious and pro-life beliefs that are opposed by certain abortion lackeys in the Australian government,” said Sullenger. “This is unjust and as a representative of Operation Rescue, I demand his immediate release and an apology from Minister Dutton for the trouble he has caused by acquiescing to false accusations of those who oppose Newman’s pro-life stance.”
h/t: Christian News Wire
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/outrageous-look-what-government-is-doing-to-this-pro-life-christian-to-silence-him/
