The Diocese of New Westminster’s Rev. Emilie Smith was sentenced to seven days in jail for blocking the road to Trans Mountain’s Westridge Marine Terminal.

In contrast, Linda Gibbons was arrested not for blocking access to an abortion clinic but for standing on the sidewalk, a crime for which she has spent over seven years in jail. I know where my sympathies lie.

From here:

A New Westminster priest is one of the latest anti-pipeline protesters to be sentenced to seven days in jail for violating a court injunction banning protesters from blocking access to Trans Mountain facilities.

Emilie Smith, a parish priest at St. Barnabas Anglican Church, is headed to the Alouette Women’s Correctional Centre in Maple Ridge for seven consecutive days after being sentenced in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver Wednesday morning.

She and former Mennonite pastor Steve Heinrichs, originally from Burnaby, were arrested at Trans Mountain’s Westridge Marine Terminal on April 20 after blocking the road into the facility and refusing to leave when asked by police.

“This is a way we are called to live out the reconciliation, is in standing with the Tsleil-Waututh and others to defend this holy land,” she told the Record before her arrest. “I think our faith teaches us that we’re not supposed to just say nice things to each other, we’re supposed to live out our faith in our bodies … we believe in taking action.”

Smith’s other major contribution in the fight for justice, equality, diversity, nightmare utopianism, and hallucinogenic alphabet soup rainbow inclusion comes in the shape of a sign telling people not to litter on church property. More specifically, not to drop their crap there. It must be legitimate because it is signed by God.