Thu Mar 9, 2023 – 10:07 am EST
SYDNEY (LifeSiteNews) — In a stark demonstration of the collapse of legal balance towards religion in Australia, a Christian group that held a public prayer march through King Street in Sydney, Australia, has been attacked by politicians and investigated by the police.
Video footage of the prayer march, which was shared on social media, features a number of men reciting the Lord’s Prayer. In response to the gathering Sydney police deployed officers to what was described as an “unauthorised protest” including approximately 30 people. No arrests were made. It remains unclear why this was considered an unauthorized protest, or what illegal act the men might potentially have committed.
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Thousands reacted calling it an “intimidating and threatening action that need to be stopped” and “christo-fascists straight out of the 1930s”. pic.twitter.com/Oaes4LeOaX
— Chriscoveries (@Chriscoveries) March 3, 2023
Darcy Byrne, a local mayor who was previously found to have used a vote to improperly “quash allegedly defamatory comments about him… on social media,” was quick to make accusations against the Christians,
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