Credit: Tallahassee Democrat

Florida Democrats managed to get themselves arrested while protesting a pro-life measure.

The legislation in question would ban abortion after six weeks of pregnancy. It passed the Republican-dominated Florida Senate by a vote of 26-13 along party lines Monday.

The legislation now heads to the Florida House, which is also controlled by the GOP. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has vowed to sign the bill into law.

After the vote, Democrats led by State Party Chair Nikki Fried and Sen. Lauren Book threw a tantrum and held a childish protest outside Tallahassee City Hall.

Despite being warned multiple times by Tallahassee Police to vacate they premises, they refused. The police then arrested them.

WATCH:

JUST IN: Florida Senate Minority leader Laura Book and Former Florida Agricultural Commissioner Nikki Fried ARRESTED IN TALLAHASSEE Monday evening after protesting the state's new six-week abortion ban..

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— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) April 4, 2023

The Tallahassee Democrat reported:

Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried and Senate Democratic Leader Lauren Book were among about a dozen demonstrators who were handcuffed and arrested at an evening protest for abortion rights outside Tallahassee City Hall.

The protesters, condemning the state’s proposed six-week abortion ban, were taken away by police while sitting in a circle and singing “Lean on Me” inside a barricaded area of a park that was closed at sunset.

They were warned by police that if they didn’t leave the area, they would be subject to arrest. As a large contingent of police approached, protesters yelled “shame, shame” as everyone was cuffed and walked to the parking garage beneath City Hall and loaded into a Tallahassee Police Department van.

Naturally, Democrats on Twitter decided to blame the man responsible for the Florida Democratic Party’s total destruction, DeSantis.

Welcome to the Free State of Florida where peaceful protesters get arrested, including Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried and Senate Minority leader Lauren Book.pic.twitter.com/RUGVkYMCOg

— Occupy Democrats (@OccupyDemocrats) April 4, 2023

I am sorry that Ron Desantis is arresting political opponents. I am sorry that he is arresting women, and pregnant women.

— martysalo (@msalo71) April 4, 2023

I'd say "unbelievable," but this is the so-called free state of Florida under Ron DeSantis.@NikkiFried is the Democratic leader for this moment. Fearless. On the side of justice. On the right side of history.

Keep fighting, Nikki. We got your back. https://t.co/C962x3uf6u

— Benjamin J. Kirby (@benjaminjkirby) April 4, 2023

There’s just one problem, however. DeSantis does not personally possess the power to arrest political opponents.

Elon Musk’s new feature to Twitter, “Community Notes,” has the brutal truth: Nikki Fried and company were arrested by the Tallahassee Police Department, which is controlled by the the city.

The city commission has a Democratic Party majority and the mayor is a Democrat.

Now DeSantis is arresting is opponents https://t.co/LlRtJRsRII

— Randi Weingarten (@rweingarten) April 4, 2023

Do not expect Randi Weingarten and her fellow leftists to admit the error, though. Their lack of wisdom is only surpassed by their stubbornness.

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The state of Oregon is denying the application of a woman who wants to adopt because she is a Christian and will not agree to support gender transition if the child she adopts ends up being trans.

This is where the left has planned to take this argument from the start. It’s a backdoor way to openly discriminate against people of faith.

They don’t care about the welfare of children, they care about spreading their ideology.

Alliance Defending Freedom is suing on her behalf:

Oregon officials put politics above children’s welfare

On behalf of a single mother of five wishing to adopt siblings from foster care, Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed a federal lawsuit Monday against Oregon state officials for denying her application because of her religious beliefs.

Jessica Bates began the process of applying to become certified to adopt a child from Oregon’s foster care system one year ago. The Oregon Department of Human Services, the agency responsible for the delivery and administration of the state’s child welfare programs, denied her application because individuals seeking to adopt must agree to “respect, accept, and support … the sexual orientation, gender identity, [and] gender expression” of any child the department could place in an applicant’s home, and Bates could not agree to this because of her faith.

“Oregon’s policy amounts to an ideological litmus test: people who hold secular or ‘progressive’ views on sexual orientation and gender identity are eligible to participate in child welfare programs, while people of faith with religiously informed views are disqualified because they don’t agree with the state’s orthodoxy,” said ADF Senior Counsel Jonathan Scruggs, director of the ADF Center for Conscience Initiatives. “The government can’t exclude certain communities of faith from foster care and adoption services because the state doesn’t like their particular religious beliefs.”

During her application process, Bates alerted ODHS that she will happily love and accept any child, but she cannot say or do something that goes against her Christian faith. ODHS’s policy, however, excludes her and others who hold traditional religious beliefs about human nature and sexuality by requiring parents to use a child’s preferred pronouns, take a child to affirming events like Pride parades, or facilitate a child’s access to dangerous pharmaceutical interventions like puberty blockers and hormone shots if the child so requests. As such, ODHS’s policy penalizes Bates for her religious views, compels her to speak words that violate her beliefs, and deprives her of equal protection of the law because of her faith.

Do you think the state of Oregon would object to this woman’s application of she was a drug addicted member of Antifa? Of course not.

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