Contact: Rev. Dion Evans, Issues 4 Life,
dion@issues4life.org; Day Gardner, National Black Pro-Life Union , 202-834-0844; Katie Short Life Legal Defense, 805-640-1940
OAKLAND, Calif., March 23 /
Christian Newswire/ -- "This is Constitutional lynching" warn Black leaders regarding the plight of Reverend Walter Hoye of Issues 4 Life. Citing a statute banning Hoye's freedom of speech and religion March 20, Alameda Superior Court Judge Stuart Hing told Hoye to abandon his post near an abortion mill or be jailed. Today Hoye is behind bars.
Hoye, an African American pastor, prays near the local abortion mill with a poster : "Jesus loves you and your baby. Let us help."
Hoye's spokesman, Rev. Dion Evans, Pastor of Chosen Vessels Christian Church in Oakland said: "Walter's jailed, five on duty policemen are gunned down, babies are dying in abortion mills. Pray against the scourge of violence."
Confronting Hoye's campaign, Oakland City Council's ordinance criminalizes peaceful intervention like Hoye's while permitting others to encourage and escort women into the abortion mill.
"This is government sponsored eugenics, siding with those who want to exterminate Blacks; creating laws limiting our freedom of speech," said Catherine Davis, Georgia Right to Life's Minority Outreach Director.
Hoye spoke with Congressional Black Caucus members Jesse Jackson, Jr. and John Conyers last week to garner their support in upholding his Constitutional rights.
"This gag order against Black ministers is outrageous. We call on the Caucus to intervene in this Jim Crow America nightmare. Our procreative health is at stake," said the leaders.
LEARN National Director Dr. Johnny Hunter said: "Public policy must be viewed through a moral compass, taking the country in the right direction, lest we lose our way. Remember this Oakland before banning our freedom to speak out against abortion."
"Martin Luther King, Jr. said injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere," quoted Priests for Life Pastoral Associate Dr. Alveda King. She wrote to the Caucus seeking justice for Hoye, and investigation of the incarceration of nine students in Birmingham last January for a similar incident.
National Black Pro-Life Union President Day Gardner urges nonviolent action: "I urge pastors to go to Oakland to stand in Reverend Hoye's place. Black women need to know we don't have to kill our children to have better lives."
Pastor Stephen Broden from Fairpark Bible Fellowship in Dallas Texas agrees: "Abortion's scourge is ravaging the Black community. Like Walter, I'll stand before the abortion mills, offering our women assistance."
"Walter's love and courage will assure his and our victory in defending the unborn" said www.Blackgenocide.org founder Rev. Clenard Childress.
