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Man Arrested After Suit Claims Religious Entitlement To Use Force At Abortion Clinic

By Howard M. Friedman

In Plano, Texas, the FBI has arrested Erlyndon Joseph ''Joey'' Lo on charges of using interstate commerce to communicate a threat and threatening force to intimidate clients and employees of a reproductive health service. New York Times reported yesterday that the charges grew out of a class action lawsuit filed by the 27-year old Lo in Plano, Texas in which he threatened to use deadly force to stop an abortion at a named clinic in Dallas if the U.S. Supreme Court did not act immediately to stop abortion. He alleged:

My religious beliefs include the beliefs that an individual is alive at the moment of conception, abortion is murder and is the worst murder of all murders possible because these babies are completely defenseless, and I am entitled under my religious beliefs to use deadly force if necessary to save the innocent life of another.

The lawsuit was brought against the Supreme Court an asked for $999 trillion in damages. [Thanks to Scott Mange for the lead.]

Full post as published by Religion Clause on April 06, 2010 (boomark / email).