Trial Starts for Preachers Arrested Outside Pro-Homosexual Celebration

Agape Press ^ | 1/8/04 | Allie Martin

[Polycarp IV]

It could never happen here...it could never happen here...it could never happen here...keep repeating till you actually believe it, then insert your head in the sand.
Its happening here.


Ping. (As usual, if you would like to be added to or removed from my "conservative Catholics" ping list, just send me a FReepmail. Please realize that some of my "ping" posts are long.)

[little jeremiah]

Homosexual Agenda Ping.

It sounds as though "hate speech" laws are gearing up. Ugly.

Anyone who wants on or off this ping list, tell me and I shall do it.

[dagnabbit]

charged with disorderly conduct and defiant trespass

This might be an emerging speech-code thought-crime matter, or it might also be that the switch-hitters had a valid permit of some kind for their little festival, and the preachers were doing their thing within that permit area.

[.45MAN]

THanks for the ping. I guess this will just spread everywhere. What country is this?

[tuesday afternoon]

I find this story very interesting. I tried to research it ad ended up with lots of posts re: Michael Mercavage. He is a street preacher for RepentAmerica. They have a link to an update: 3 Street Ministers Await Trespass, Conduct Ruling. From the last paragraphs:

[Tina Manoogian-King, city Parks and Recreation director] told [Judge Scott] Evans that she and the police agreed to enforce a 50-foot security zone beyond the boundaries of Riverfront Park.

However, when asked, King could not point to any ordinance or state law granting authority for such a zone.

Yesterday wasn't the first time the city has wrestled with the free speech rights of protesters and the constitutional rights of assembly at events such as PrideFest.

As a result of a lawsuit in which Garisto was a plaintiff, U.S. Middle District Judge William W. Caldwell, in December 2002, threw out a Harrisburg ordinance requiring a permit to pass out leaflets or make speeches at city parks.