Posted on 06/27/2023 9:55:20 AM PDT by Morgana
Street preacher Matthew Meinecke’s Bible was torn to shreds after he read its contents aloud at Seattle Pride on Sunday, according to footage from the event.
Meinecke who is also known was the “The Seattle Preacher” was barked at and taunted by attendees who waved transgender Pride flags in his face as he attempted to read the Bible, video showed. Other attendees at Seattle Pride included naked men riding bikes, furries and nude adults standing in fountains in front of children. (RELATED: Nude Cyclists Bike Through Seattle Pride Parade As Children Look On)
“Have fun doing this at a Pride event when no one wants you doing this,” the Bible-tearer can be heard saying to Meinecke in a video shared by Jonathan Choe, a journalist for Discovery Institute.
Security and the attacker’s friends can be heard asking the person to stop.
In a video taken by Katie Daviscourt, reporter for The Post Millennial, Meinecke can be seen standing and reading his Bible while he is barked at by Pride participants.
In another video from Choe, Meinecke is asked to leave by security for “protesting” and “demonstrating” without a permit.
“It’s religion, man. You can’t discriminate based upon my religion,” Meinecke said in the video posted by Choe.
Security and Pride attendees can be seen gathering around Meinecke and alleging that he was carrying signs in protest.
Meinecke is not new to reading the Bible at Pride events, as he was arrest twice in 2022, once for being at a Pride event and the second time while at an abortion rally, ChurchLeaders reported.
His Bible was torn apart “kicked around like a soccer ball” and thrown in a portable toilet, according to ChurchLeaders.
Seattle Pride did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
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Nothing was done to protect his freedom of sppech or religion but just YOU burn an LBGQT+ flag and that’s felony hate speech. Jail time for you.
These last about 2,000 demon possessed swine years were predicted in the scriptures.
They are the last 2,000 years of Satan’s afforded Legion, 6,000 years.
Both are ending at some point.
It says Satan gets locked up for 1,000 years.
That’s coming.
Satan’s end and the modern Church Age ending it’s about 2,000 years around the same time, isn’t accidental..
It’s Providential...
It’s true, that the Osceola mudflow did reach Puget Dound up in the Duwamish area. However, the Cascadia Subduction Zone is much more likely to take out Seattle, Portland, and pretty much anything from northern California up to Vancouver Island.
“If he wants to do an event then get the permit”
We don’t need permits to practice our religion here in the USA, or to speak in the public square.
Dumb@ss preacher. Bring a Bible and Koran next time. Let’s see what happens when they rip up a Koran.
“Dumb@ss preacher. Bring a Bible and Koran next time. Let’s see what happens when they rip up a Koran.”
I read an article the other day where it said Christians and Muslims have teamed up to fight the gay crap in schools.
So that preacher should do one better, bring the Iman with the Koran and see what happens.
You ever see those stupid “COEXIST “ bumper stickers and notice that the crescent moon symbol is poised to devour all the others.
If there is one thing Satan’s demons hate, it is the word of our Lord and Savior.
God bless this man for his fortitude and desire to bring the word of Jesus to these lost souls.
Inevitable at this point. It’s practically the case in the UK.
You beat me to it, ifinnegan. I was going to post that Scripture. One needs to consider that Scripture before praying or preaching in the face of sickos who are nowhere close to being ready to hear the truth. I admire the man’s bravery but he was putting himself in danger with probably little chance of conversion. I prefer watering the ground with much prayer and sacrifice before making a witness to a sinner.
Yes.
You never know, but Jesus usually made good points. :)
He should’ve been holding a koran.
There was a reason why this behavior/lifestyle was punishable by death in the Old Testament; He knew that when people become consumed by their own lusts that society becomes unfit for human habitation and is fit only to be burned.
+1.
I watched all the videos. They turned my stomach.
Punching their tickets on the road to destruction. Question, though...why are ‘church leaders’ capitalized?
“Yes peaceful demonstrations are indeed an absolute right on public grounds.”
“We don’t need permits to practice our religion here in the USA, or to speak in the public square.”
I guess the both of you failed to read the part where he’s been arrested for doing his type of demonstration in the past. He obviously is not practicing his religious freedoms, he’s purposely going to where the people who are there that have legally garnished a permit and he is using his beliefs to protest a difference with the people that are there.
If he had gone a few blocks away from them, where he could be sure he wouldn’t cause a physical altercation, he’d have been fine. But he is misusing his freedoms to try to disrupt those freedoms of the people there. He can’t legally do what he did, and he knew it.
“Guess you do not believe in the constitution?”
“I did not serve my country and defend the constitution so people like you can decide when a person is allowed to exercise their free speech in public spaces.”
I was a member of the military, 22 between 1968 and 1995, with a couple of years in between to heal, and then NAF followed by DOD where I retired in 2013. If I didn’t believe in the document I swore to protect and defend, and have paid the price for that physically, I wouldn’t also believe that I did that for everyone’s privileges. And that includes those who I don’t think are right in their interpretation of what’s right or wrong. They have the privilege of being wrong, but they have to have the opportunity to do so and be corrected. Arrest does that if there is no other way. I don’t determine my allegiance based upon my beliefs, but upon everyone’s privileges. I consider myself a law abiding individual which has to include everyone’s privileges.
The reason the local government demands a permit for this is so they can use their position by way of law enforcement to ensure a peaceful event. And they are expected to act in a manner to keep the peace. So the permitted group has no more right to violate that peace any more than Mr. Meinecke does. Mr. Meinecke has broken the law before using the same tactics he used here. He knows he shouldn’t do it but is determined to violate the law. He’s arrested.
The individual, if it was only one, that threaten Mr. Meinecke also should be arrested for destroying his Bible as he was in violation of the law, also.
Most permits for events require everything from content use, identification to insurance of the ground they are on, cleaning the area after the event, and even if the information they are passing to the public has been cleared with the copyrighted organization.
But even a street preacher if standing on a corner preaching, and blocks traffic or the sidewalk, will be asked to move along. That’s disrupting someone else’s privileges. And many states require a permit to preach on the streets. It depends upon the local area. I don’t write the laws, but I spent most of my life helping those that stayed within them to be offered the chance to do what they wished. It’s not God that stops what you are saying. It is man that makes the laws, to include the Constitution that creates the interpretation of the laws.
wy69
Double bingo! Boy, you hit the mark so perfectly. Many thanks for your wise observation.
Relatively little crime in Seattle?
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