Women arrested for kissing at religious festival
Published: 2013 September 30 05:18:09 (5246 Views)
Joana Palhares, 18, and Yunka Mihura, 20, could not hide their love at an evangelical event in Brazil.
The two young women kissed each other in front of the crowd and were arrested for it.
A Brazilian congressman and pastor halted the evangelical event in mid-September to order the arrest of both women for their lesbian love, Opposing Views reported.
"Those two girls have to leave here handcuffed" said Pastor Marco Feliciano as he paused his presentation at Glorifica Litoral in São Sebastião, Brazil.
"No use trying to run; guards are headed there now. This here isn't a place where anything goes. It's the house of God."
Feliciano, who is also president of the House Commission for Human Rights and Minorities, continued to condemn the women to the festival's crowd of 70,000 as guards removed them from the event, according to Global Voices Online.
Joana Palhares, 18, and Yunka Mihura, 20, were taken to a police station where they say cops sexually assaulted them, Public Radio International reported.
Palhares and Mihura said that they kissed several times before they got in trouble and nobody seemed offended but — more importantly — the event was in a public space funded by taxpayer money.
"That stage, that microphone, everything was with public money," Mihura said. "It was also an open space, on Beach Street. It was our right to be there."
The women's lawyer, Daniel Galani, said that the situation escalated out of control.
"We know there are two rights in conflict," he said. "One is the freedom of expression and the other the freedom of religious practice. The two rights are constitutional and are prescribed so that people can make use of them."
- NYDN
The two young women kissed each other in front of the crowd and were arrested for it.
A Brazilian congressman and pastor halted the evangelical event in mid-September to order the arrest of both women for their lesbian love, Opposing Views reported.
"Those two girls have to leave here handcuffed" said Pastor Marco Feliciano as he paused his presentation at Glorifica Litoral in São Sebastião, Brazil.
"No use trying to run; guards are headed there now. This here isn't a place where anything goes. It's the house of God."
Feliciano, who is also president of the House Commission for Human Rights and Minorities, continued to condemn the women to the festival's crowd of 70,000 as guards removed them from the event, according to Global Voices Online.
Joana Palhares, 18, and Yunka Mihura, 20, were taken to a police station where they say cops sexually assaulted them, Public Radio International reported.
Palhares and Mihura said that they kissed several times before they got in trouble and nobody seemed offended but — more importantly — the event was in a public space funded by taxpayer money.
"That stage, that microphone, everything was with public money," Mihura said. "It was also an open space, on Beach Street. It was our right to be there."
The women's lawyer, Daniel Galani, said that the situation escalated out of control.
"We know there are two rights in conflict," he said. "One is the freedom of expression and the other the freedom of religious practice. The two rights are constitutional and are prescribed so that people can make use of them."
- NYDN
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