[R. Scott]

Pursley, who is on the faculty of the Baptist Bible College & Seminary in Clarks Summit, Pa., had two bottles of water with him, police said. He was charged with attempted burglary and resisting arrest.
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"He is a dedicated man with strong beliefs and God-given convictions," the statement said.

What was this dedicated man was going to do, pour the water down her throat and drown her, or was he just going for personal publicity like the rest of the circus.

[Wallace T.]

Mr. Pursley engaged in what is known as civil disobedience. The Peter Zenger case, the Boston Tea Party, the Underground Railroad, the sit-down strikes of the 1930s, the Birmingham bus boycott, etc., are examples of such disobedience in American history. He may get publicity this way, but so did Samuel Adams, John Hancock, William Lloyd Garrison, Sojourner Truth, John L. Lewis, Walter Reuther, and Martin Luther King. Civil disobedience is a long standing American tradition.