A group of pro-life advocates in Jacksonville, North Carolina, will be allowed to resume praying and picketing in front of the city's only abortion clinic, while city attorneys modify a public ordinance that the city had previously used to prohibit them from doing so.
The city’s decision to voluntarily modify the ordinance is part of an agreement reached last week between city attorneys and the Thomas More Society, a Christian legal group that is representing the pro-life citizens in a lawsuit that challenges Jacksonville’s current “Parade and Public Assembly Ordinance” as unconstitutional. On November 21, after a hearing in the case, U.S. District Judge Terrence W. Boyle issued a preliminary injunction that prohibits the city from using its current ordinance against the pro-life citizens, and allows the citizens to resume their peaceful demonstrations outside the abortion clinic until city attorneys can draft a new ordinance.
According to The Daily News, city spokesman, Glen Hargett said in a statement, “The city council has indicated a desire to resolve this lawsuit and to make any necessary changes to this ordinance that are necessary to come into compliance with evolving First Amendment law.”
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