Christian Teen Arrested for “Hate Crime”

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By Rev. Ted Pike

The police department of Champaign, http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4415 is reported to be under pressure from higher authorities to increase its quota of hate crimes convictions.

Brett Van Asdlen, an 18 year-old Christian http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2254 student on a baseball scholarship, didn’t know this. On April 12 he and a friend saw two homosexuals leaning on each other and holding hands, walking toward them on the sidewalk. “Look at those two guys holding hands,” Brett said to his friend and walked past them. According to Brett’s mother, the next thing he knew, one of the homosexuals (whom he perceived to be drunk) had grabbed him by the shoulder, putting his face up to Brett’s and repeatedly shouting, “What did you say?” Brett told him to go away several times and then pushed him. The homosexual fell over backwards. On his back, the homosexual told his partner to call the police. In eight minutes, four officers arrived. Two interviewed Brett and his friend and assured them there would be no problem. Brett had been physically accosted and detained, clearly an assault. The other two officers interviewed the homosexual, who was taken to the hospital.Brett was arrested for violation of the Illinois hate crimes law, a Class 4 felony. The penalty can be as much as 3 years in prison.

The homosexual and public media in the Champaign area are now in hue and cry to convict Brett. Homosexual groups are publishing articles against him in their media and on the internet.

http://www.truthtellers.org/alerts/christianteenarrested.htm

2008-05-02