A Brazilian congressman ordered that two young women be thrown in
jail after they were seen kissing during an evangelical event in
mid-September.
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Pastor Marco Feliciano stopped his presentation during Glorifica
Litoral in the city of São Sebastião to request that municipal guards
and military police officers arrest the two women.
“Those two girls have to leave here handcuffed” said Feliciano, who
is also president of the House Commission for Human Rights and
Minorities. “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.”
The two young women, Yunka Mihura, 20, and Joana Palhares, 18, were
taken by the Municipal Civil Guard to the First District Police Station
of São Sebastião. Mihura and Palhares claimed that they were physically
assaulted by the police during the incident, PRI reported.
During an interview after their arrest, the women said they had
kissed multiple times during the event and that nobody seemed to mind.
“The event was public, paid for with our taxes,” Mihura said. “That
stage, that microphone, everything was with public money. It was also an
open space, on Beach Street. It was our right to be there.”
“We see it as a situation that got completely out of control,” said the lawyer for the two women,
Daniel Galani. “We know there are two rights in conflict: 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.”
SOURCE: Opposing views
