Posted on 06/30/2009 12:29:21 PM PDT by pissant
Brian and Doris Johnson have passed out free Bibles at the Twin Cities Pride Festival for 11 years, but this year their free gifts got them arrested. After being told they couldn't have a booth at this year's festival, the family came anyway and ended up behind bars for trespassing.
The Pride Festival started Saturday in Loring Park and is considered the third-largest GLBT celebration in the nation. Since the festival rented out the entire park, police said they could choose which vendors to allow in the park.
The Johnsons are born-again Christians and believe homosexuality is a sin. Pride organizers said their booth with "signs about Jesus, models of fetuses and stack of bibles" caused discussions that offended some participants. Organizers were concerned about letting a vendor discriminate against the GLBT community at their own event.
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Very tolerant lot, I see. And I’m supposed to weep for purported injustices done to them? Get out of my face with that silliness.
Should’ve passed out qur’ans just to see what would have happened.
Meanwhile....hundreds of sex acts were taking place on the streets and literature was being passed out on how to have better anal sex.
I wonder what would happen if a gay group tried to put up a booth and hand out gay literature at a church festival?
This from the same group that brings you the ‘rainbow sash’ aimed at disturbing Church services on *private* property..
Their rent payment, their party. Trespassing charges not too steep a price for obeying one’s conscience.
God bless this couple. Let us pray for them. I know God will give them victory, no matter the outcome.
> Pride organizers said their booth with “signs about Jesus, models of fetuses and stack of bibles” caused discussions that offended some participants<
My 2 cents: the freaks and fruits rented the whole park and they can choose whomever they want. The Johnsons were INSIDE the park and that IS trespassing. IF the Johnsons were a few feet OUT of the park away from park, then the cops wouldnt arrest them. They’ve been doing this for 11 years and they should have done this correctly..
On second thought, if they weren’t selling anything, how are they vendors? Was every guest at the event specifically invited? Did no other guests express opinions and give away freebies?
pearls before swine.
In a city park?
Yeah, I wonder what would happen if a Church tried to keep the homos out.
Probably depend a lot on where they were. I would imagine the police would be called in at some time, if they didn’t leave.
There was no mention of a “parade” but the word here is “event”. To add, the homos were not convinced that even though the Johnsons signed an “anti discrimination” agreement, the organizers were not convinced they were sincere so it was null.
I don’t like the fags either, but every rule has a loophole and the couple failed to simply find it. If they were outside at the entrance, with police protection, and they would have more their case much more visibly than being inside with a hostile majority.
For being homosexuals? If the literature wasn't overtly pornographic (yeah, fat chance, I know), I can't imagine police arresting homosexuals on public property. The cops would be called, but I would put money on a very different outcome.
In general, a government cannot sell away, even temporarily, the right to free expression in a public place.
ok, now all we have to do is wait and see if it happens, and look at the outcome.
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