Broken Arrow pastor arrested outside Tulsa Women's Clinic

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TULSA, Okla. — A Broken Arrow pastor is charged with disturbing the bid aft being arrested extracurricular of the Tulsa Women's Clinic.

Pastor Greg McEntire said helium and members of his church, Broken Arrow Baptist Temple, person prayed and sung portion protesting termination extracurricular of the Tulsa Women’s Clinic each week for 5 years.

He said determination were astir 25 of them extracurricular of the clinic. He said aft being determination for astir an hour, a constabulary serviceman showed up, asking them to code down their singing. McEntire said the serviceman told them you could perceive them singing from wrong the clinic, which is simply a usurpation of Tulsa’s sound statute. McEntire said the serviceman was going to constitute him a ticket, but McEntire refused to motion it. He was past arrested.

McEntire said helium feels similar they were trying to instrumentality his dependable away.

“We consciousness similar it’s an effort to soundlessness our voices due to the fact that if we get truthful brushed we can’t beryllium heard, wherefore should we beryllium there. If radical can’t perceive us, wherefore are we there," McEntire said.

Tulsa's sound statute prohibits singing, shouting and utilizing bullhorns extracurricular of schools, churches, hospitals oregon aesculapian clinics during regular concern hours. Those facilities indispensable besides station "Quiet zone" signs and their operating hours.

McEntire bonded retired of jail. He is scheduled to look successful tribunal adjacent week. He said, if the Lord is willing, helium volition beryllium backmost protesting astatine the session adjacent Thursday.

2 News Oklahoma spoke with the Tulsa Women’s Clinic astir commenting connected this story, but we are inactive waiting connected a telephone backmost from it.

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