Posted on 07/10/2026 6:09:12 AM PDT by V_TWIN
Cop: If someone is offended by your talking, then we have a problem ... If they are offended by your speech ... okay I'll write you a ticket and we'll go from there.
Former cop: Wait, you're going to ticket us for offensive speech?
Cop: Yes! It's disorderly conduct.
A Texas police department says it plans to 'look into' a viral video showing one of its officers warning a Christian street preaching group they could be cited for simply saying something offensive to others.
The encounter occurred June 27 at Trinity Pride Fest in Fort Worth, where police were caught on video threatening to arrest members of a street preaching team led by evangelist Rich Penkoski. According to the video, police blocked Penkoski and David Grisham from accessing the sidewalk upon their arrival at the event ...
A Fort Worth PD spokesman on Monday provided The Christian Post with the following statement: 'The Fort Worth Police Department is committed to protecting the constitutional rights of all individuals, including the right to free speech and peaceful assembly, while also ensuring public safety and enforcing applicable laws and ordinances.
'We are aware of a video and allegations circulating [on] social media. We will need some time to look into this and will provide additional information once our review is complete.'
This is enforcing public blasphemy laws, making it a crime to offend the LGBTQ+ community with biblical truth.
Sounds like an overly zealous cop who thinks her badge and gun means that she gets to determine how our constitutional rights are practiced.
We can infer this because it doesn't appear that this is the first time this woman has pulled a stunt like this, according to The Christian Post.
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well we do have first amendment rights, and laws against discrimination based on sex, religion race etc- but we’ll see how long these laws protect the nation-
A cop arrested a street preacher at another gay pride event, under similar circumstances- cop claiming that the gay folks felt threatened- but it got thrown out- not sure if the preacher ever was able to sue or not
And yet its OK for gay activists like these "Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence" to go out of their way to be deliberately offensive and dress up as nuns or in other religious garb and protest in churches. Or for Don Lemon and a mob to disrupt a church service to protest. That's all free speech and "celebrated." But if you stand to the side and preach, you can get arrested by a lesbian cop for saying something offensive to the gay pride attendees.
I find just about everything James Talarico (Dem candidate for senate in Texas) says offensive. I do not advocate for his arrest because I find him offensive. It is his constitutional right to spew his insane politics in public.
At least she didn’t shoot someone.
That’s a big achievement.
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The homo’s will never be happy.
They are trying to prove something to themselves and deep down inside they know they’re all F’d up.
Because they deep down inside know they aren’t right, even if the law, some churches, public education, the medical community, the movies and music say they are, they are on a PERPETUAL quest for self affirmation.
Society has accepted them a long time ago and they face no more discrimination than any other group... Every human alive faces discrimination. Welcome to being a human.
They are looking for people to applaud them, to cheer them on, to erect monuments for them but it will NEVER make them happy because of what is going on deep inside their own mind.
https://www.nps.gov/ston/index.htm
They think their sexual fetish (and we ALL have our sexual preferences but most of us keep it in the bedroom) is some badge of honor which should entitle them to something if they scream about what they did in the bedroom last night.
Islam allows for it when it is a believer sodomizing a non-believer.
It is even encouraged.
What is not allowed is sodomy between believers.
Cop: Yes! It’s disorderly conduct.
Shame on that city’s attorney for not doing a better job teaching what “disorderly conduct” means. This cop is trying to shoehorn the free speech in to “tends to incite an immediate breach of the peace”, which applies only to “abusive, indecent, profane, or vulgar language” under Penal Code Section 42.01(a)(1).
Thank you for that information. Islam is really something...
Excellent point(s).
Most Americans have absolutely no understanding of these principles, and how essential they were to the founding of our nation. A direct, personal connection to God, thanks to our Savior Jesus Christ, is an anathema to communists. Christianity must therefore, in their view, be eliminated. We used to understand that...
Texas seems to have a lot of idiot cops. What the hell happened to Fort Worth? This is the kind of full retard you would find in Austin and Dallas.
The disease is spreading
“I don’t believe there has ever been a religion that has allowed for homosexual conduct.”
Ever heard of the Roman Catholic church ?
(”offensive” Preaching at Gay Pride Event)
Lot tried at Sodom and Gomorrah too
Genesis 19:9
King James Version
9 And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, AND HE WILL NEEDS BE A JUDGE: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.
Easy all. The FW police brass has already stated the cop was wrong and they are going to be doing more 1st Amendment training.
Under Obama’s Hate Crimes law (Shepard-Byrd), anyone who opposes Big Perversion can be arrested for offending perversions. It deliberately targets churches.
Female cops think that if they cover their arms in tattoos, it will make them more cop-like and maybe scare off the big guys that regularly beat their butts.
The city of Fort Worth has suffered a subversive woke problem for many years now. I imagine it’s becoming worse under the influx of fleeing Californians.
Possibly her GIRLFRIEND; female cop.
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