Posted on 08/05/2014 8:33:39 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
It’s not uncommon for shopping malls to have rules of conduct. Some places ban saggy pants. Others won’t let you ask people for money. But a mall in Georgia may have one of the most unusual rules -- they won’t let shoppers pray – not even over their meals.
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Patronize those who pray.
What part of “...or the free exercise thereof” do these people not understand??
I agree! We need giant pray-ins!
Won’t be a problem. It’s a private business and they can ask you to leave for any reason.
That’s unless you order a gay wedding cake in a traditional family values bakery.
Do it. Do it. Do it.
I would have expected this in the soviet satellites of Red England; not Georgia.
Your boycott is a great idea but do it after you have a talk with the CEO of the mall.We did this and got a Creche put in our mall at Christmas time.
Sometimes it seems the entire country is upside down
Better?
LOL
getting familiar
Someone open a bacon restaurant. Fill the mall with the smell of bacon.
What the lady described does not sound disruptive — she was not proselytizing shoppers or praying in a very loud and emotive way. So how is it a problem for women to stand in a circle and pray quietly?
My bets are either this is a low paid, over-zealous security guard who is misapplying the mall policy of “No Proselytizing” or a hyper-sensitive mall that is afraid of lawsuits from people who want to proselytize if the mall allows this.
it sounds like a mall when hundreds of believers should come to pray all on the same day...
..and then never return again and encourage all the people who believe in God to boycott that mall.
Malls are dying out in much of the country. Usually they don’t wind up in Hell, but this mall might.
Maybe they'll pass out “Juden” armbands and armbands with crosses on them....
sounds like a mall I need to visit with my Christian sisters.
Our family prays over our food in all public places. Not loudly but not silently either... I refuse to be silenced in the Name of Jesus Christ...
There has been an update to the story with some some serious backtracking by the mall.
http://www.13wmaz.com/story/news/local/dublin/2014/08/05/dublin-mall-prayer/13618189/
Its private property. The courts and government are not the remedy. The remedy is to boycott. Stand on the sidewalk with a sign informing shoppers that religion is not welcome inside.
Now that is a remedy consistent with conservatism.
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