. . . shall suffer persecution.” 2 Timothy 3:12
“And who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?” Romans 8:35
Commissioner willing to go to jail for Christian faith
A local official in Maryland recently announced that she is willing to go to jail because of her Christian faith.
Carroll County Commissioner Robin Bartlett Frazier decided that she will continue to defy a federal judge’s order against sectarian prayers in board meetings, and is willing to suffer any consequences.
On March 26, U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles issued a temporary injunction barring the commissioners from having sectarian prayers before meetings. One day later, Bartlett Frazier defied the ruling.
“I think that is an infringement on my freedom of speech and freedom of religion, and I think it’s a wrong ruling,” she said before the March 27 meeting.
“And just as I wouldn’t give up my guns or I wouldn’t allow my children to be palm scanned or I wouldn’t give up my property rights with PlanMaryland, I’m not going to give up those rights. But out of respect for my colleagues, I’m not sure how strongly they feel about it, I’m willing to go to jail over it.