Lutheran Pastor Jailed in Germany for Opposing Abortion

Erlangen (Germany), June 26, 2007: A German court sentenced a 55-year old Lutheran pastor in jail on June 14 for opposing abortion (Volksverhetzung, which means incitement of the people).

Actually there's more to this story. The pastor was jailed for usng the word holocaust in a way Jews don't approve. Read on.

"Pastor Johannes Lerle was sentenced to prison for an year by Erlangen court in Germany for compared the killing of the unborn in contemporary Germany to the holocaust.

Without legalized abortion the number of German children would increase annually by at least 150,000, which is the number of legal abortions in birth dearth Germany. Pastor Johannes Lerle compared the killing of the unborn as the Jews were killed in Auschwitz during the Second World War.

On 14 June, the court in Erlangen ruled that, in doing so, the pastor had “incited the people” because his statement was a denial of the holocaust of the Jews in Nazi-Germany."

See the entire articles here: Journal Cretien

My prayers are are for the good pastor and his family. (Shhhh! Don't tell the anti-defamation league)