Broken Arrow Pastor Arrested While Protesting Outside Tulsa Women’s Clinic

A Broken Arrow pastor was arrested during a protest Thursday outside of an abortion clinic in Tulsa.

Pastor Greg McEntire of the Broken Arrow Baptist Temple said he comes to the clinic every week to sing, but this is the first time he's been arrested for doing so.

McEntire bonded out of jail Thursday afternoon and he's facing misdemeanor charges for disturbing the peace. McEntire said the arrest started with a noise complaint about his group singing outside the Tulsa women's clinic.

"Our purpose in being there, and our first-amendment right, is to speak so that people can hear us. At the same time, we're not trying to be so loud that we're obnoxious," he said.

Thursday, Susan Braselton stood in her usual spot, across the parking lot from the singers.

"They try to shame, intimidate, and harass women," Braselton said.

She works as an escort for the women helping them get from their car to the clinic, but when she got inside,she could still hear them.

"There is a noise ordinance, you're not supposed to be able to hear things in the clinic," she said.

They called the police who wrote McEntire a citation.

"They say if they can hear it, then it's too loud. He said that's what the law says. I said that sounds rather ambiguous to me," McEntire said.

That ambiguity is what McEntire takes issue with. He disagreed with the legitimacy of the ticket, so he refused to sign it which got him arrested.

With stiff new abortion restrictions in place in Texas, Braselton said more women are coming to Oklahoma, and both sides will be here to meet them.