Posted on 02/25/2020 10:53:21 AM PST by aimhigh
When people ask Jeremy Chong about his Friday night plans, they don’t get the typical college sophomore response. He and his friends usually head to downtown Chicago. But the point isn’t to party—it’s to evangelize. And thanks to a federal judge, the group of Wheaton students can finally resume that without harassment.
For months, students like Chong and Matthew Swart would pass out gospel tracts at Millennium Park. They were just simple threefold pamphlets telling people about faith in Jesus Christ. “[We were] passing those out to anyone who would take [them] and having conversations when we were approached.”
Simple enough, right? Wrong. The park’s security team saw what was happening and stopped them—not once, but again and again. By the fifth time, the students had enough.
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Well, they changed their rules all right. They decided, in an absurd new policy, to divide the park into 11 imaginary rooms. And—give Chicago points for creativity—only one of those “rooms” allowed open conversations about faith. “It’s a public park!” Swart’s attorney John Mauck said incredulously. ” … Not rooms.”
How is “Evangelizing” defined?
If I stand at a Chicago street corner and give out a Christian tract for free, is that “Evangelizing”? And why for First Amendment’s sake is that considered illegal?
If they can’t stop them legally, they’ll start shooting at them.
I knew it! See, Trump is turning America into The Handmaid’s Tale - he’s such a Nazi. Damn him!
The fact that this even needed to go to court is amazing to me....
Because it might hurt the feelings of somebody. Sad but that is what it amounts to in those who oppose such speech.
I’ve seen his facebook page and read many of the comments he has received. Jeremy Chong and his friends have set themselves up for a lot of abuse by even mentioning Christ in downtown Chicago.
I admire his faith and bravery.
We were supposed to become the handmaid’s tale world, if Brett Kavanaugh were to become a Supreme Court justice.
Funny how things work out. Kavanaugh became a justice on the court, hut America has not become the world of the handmaid’s tale. Somehow their predictions didn’t come true.
How is “Evangelizing” defined?
If I stand at a Chicago street corner and give out a Christian tract for free, is that “Evangelizing”? And why for First Amendment’s sake is that considered illegal?
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As Christ changes me into His image, people see that.
And I will stand out, despite my acting ‘normal’.
So . . . we are exposed, and ‘identified’ for illegal evangelizing (persecution).
Bump
I wonder if park security would similarly harass people passing out tracts about transgender rights?
I don’t think it’s good enough that they won their case, there should be Sanctions on the City Council that undertook this Malicious Act in their relentless attack on the First Amendment of the US Constitution, at the very least they should be personally liable for all costs and legal fees
That’s not the only thing they should be looking at
COULD THIS BE WHY CHICAGOANS ARE SEEING RATS ?
The city of Chicago is composed of 50 wards which average out to around 72 precincts of about 350 or more voters in each precinct. Many are former villages incorporated into the city as the city grew. . A Chicago Alderman is in effect a mini mayor. They have input into who gets city services and now it’s how those services are being administered seem to be running into who’s ward is it ?.
What’s not being looked at is how Chicago wards have been redistricted. Chicago has had neighborhoods divided to create “Hispanic”residential sections going to Hispanic aldermanic and congressional (Gutierez) candidates and blacks going to black candidates.Which apparently is the result of the turnover in the Freddie and Fanny mortgage collapse. As stable integrated areas changed into being unstable because of constant dwelling turnover.had the effect of breaking up a contiguous geographic continuity and community identity.
Because the wards affected which are really like small towns have had sections broken up into areas where if a problem arises in a given section of street which has one way traffic only. It may be two way a block down because it’s in a different ward.
The same applies to all other city services including zoning where serving socialist ideologic political purposes single dwelling units are removed and replaced by multiple high rise apartments complcating city services such as sanitation where garbage collection routes are organized by ward boundaries. Which disrupts living style where that is permitted to happen. But in doing so those alderman have people who will vote for them because they know no better,
50 year Alderman Burke who is under federal charges for corruption ward is an example. Burke’s ward ,14th, needed remapping . The 14th was originally known as “Back of The Yards” Once the home of the famous Chicago Stock Yards where most food processors along with employee demographics have since relocated. It was a compact area almost 15 plus city blocks square area composed mostly of single and 2 story frame and brick family dwellings mixed with scattered brick apartment units. Because of the construction, insurance rates varied and became known as the condemned as “redlining”.
When the democrats also warily supported by the Bush 2 administration came up with the no 20% down mortgage removed. Areas in the ward dramatically changed in demographics. Many of those dwellings sold under those conditions went into disrepair or default.
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