Reading the Bible is a crime.
Reading to themselves or reading aloud? While it’s legal either way, seems to be a vital part of this story that’s missing.
Proof readers needed at CBSLA.
“...arrested shortly after that by California High Officer Darrin Meyer...”
Does that mean he is happy to be in California, high, maybe both, or works at a high school???
I don’t know if these guys are legally guilty, but they’re jerks.
I’m always a little careful to jump to conclusions on stories like this. It is “red meat” for us conservatives that an old man was arrested for reading a Bible, or even reading it out loud. However, the Westboro Baptist Church reads Bible passages out loud too and they get arrested for disorderly conduct and no one would disagree that they should be arrested. I’m not saying that’s the case here but many times people get too loud or disrupt people going in and out.
The law is applied VERY strictly when a Christian is accused of something. But when the administration’s favorite middle eastern cult is involved, the perps are set free immediately.
I always pray when approaching the DMV building.
How does the DMV classify as a ‘business’?
Assuming the place wasn't yet open and the security would have asked anyone there at that time to leave, then that would be trespassing. BUT - those are two big assumptions.
Now if they had the courtesy and good taste to stage a gay or transgender rights protest outside the DMV things would be different.
They would be rewarded for their long suffering courage.
Especially if disconcerting images were displayed to innocent minors.
They should say they are new black panther and snap all will be ok
With the usual wait time at DMVs I don’t want to hear anyone droning on by reading aloud anymore than I want to sit there and wait with one or more screaming babies around me.
I don’t care what they read in a public place as long as I don’t have to hear the narration. If I want to read the bible, or anything else it is my choosing and not there. The ordinary conversations among the denizens are mind numbing enough.
If they were reading out loud it was probably to prosletyze which I do object to in a public place regardless of who it comes from. If you try this ploy where it is not appropriate then all you do is drive people away from your words and make them non-receptive. That approach is propagandizing and not prosletyzing.
That headline is totally misleading and omits the several events before this.
He was warned and the cop had several prior engagements with individual who not only wanted to press the boundaries of the law but, was harassing the people going into DMV.
No reason to get upset at this story. That’s this guy’s schtick and gives him relevancy for his life and is validated by being arrested.
Impeding an open business that was closed and “trespassing” on public property....
insane
“Reading” should be replaced with “reciting.”
This is from 2011.
No news of outcomes since then?????????
This is from 2011.
No news of outcomes since then?????????
There’s a whole body of case law concerning “free speech fora.” If he’d been on the sidewalk, there wouldn’t have been a problem, but to be on the grounds of a government facility doing this is no different than if they’d come into a store, a courtroom, or your home and done this.
Would that cop have arrested him had he read from the Koran?
It was getting a little out of hand. A patron said “I got in line right when they started reading the first chapter of Genesis. They were half way through Leviticus by the time I got service.”