PayPal returns frozen funds to pro-family activist following internet protest
Image via Wikipedia The PayPal corporation has returned funds it froze mid-September in pro-life and pro-family activist Julio Severo’s account following a campaign by militant homosexuals to cut Severo off from the company’s service. Julio Severo Following several weeks of unfavorable articles on PayPal’s actions in media outlets, as well as a petition drive that gathered more than 10,000 electronic signatures and offers of legal help from multiple groups defending the rights of Christians , PayPal informed Severo that it would make an “exception” and release the funds. The company had previously claimed that it would hold the money in the account, which constituted half of Severo’s funds, for up to nine months before returning it to him. PayPal shut down Severo’s account and froze his funds after the organization was petitioned by the homosexualist organization All Out to eliminate ten organizations or individuals from its service, for opposing the...