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An anti-abortion activist who rammed his truck into a Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Paul is being hailed as a political prisoner by the Army of God movement, the Pioneer Press reports.
Matthew Lee Derosia rammed the clinic during the morning of the March for Life, an anti-abortion protest hosted at the Minnesota Capitol by Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life. When Derosia was arrested, police say he was clutching a crucifix and chanting Bible verses.
The Army of God group said, “Matthew Derosia rammed the babykilling abortion mill twice and then got out and quoted verses from the Holy Bible … (on) the date when babykilling was made legal nationally.” They label him a Prisoner for Christ.
The Army of God was featured in a 2000 HBO documentary which looked at the group’s leadership and ties to more mainstream anti-abortion and Christian groups.
Derosia plead guilty in court Wednesday and could spend up to 100 days in jail.
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Comment posted March 26, 2009 @ 2:23 pm
If this man were a Muslim and rammed his truck into a Catholic Church (in the cause of “jihad”) and got out and started shouting passages from the Qur’an, would he be jailed / tried as a terrorist? I wonder (rhetorically) how different the “Army of God” position would be then?
Comment posted March 26, 2009 @ 9:44 pm
JB, you have a valid point, except that if he’d been a Muslim ramming a truck into a Catholic church, he would not have been jailed/tried as a terrorist. He would have been shot dead on the spot.
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