A judge has blocked Muslims from roaming around and handing literature out at the upcoming Peter and Paul Day festival which honors the martyrdom of saints Peter and Paul for their faith. I think it’s the right thing to do – crowd control problems that could occur if someone tells the attending Christians that the faith Peter and Paul died for could be wrong. They will rightfully be offended and could start breaking some heads.
So by now I’ve lost you. You knew I was making this up because Christians just don’t do that in this country. And certainly no judge would ever infringe on the free speech rights of those who wish to critique Christianity. (Nor should any judge do so.) And by now you’re probably guessing that I’ve turned it over on its head and that it’s Muslims who have blocked Christians from proselytizing at their event. It’s actually worse than that, because the block didn’t originate with the unindicted terror co-conspirators at CAIR or some other radical group. It originated with the Dearbornistan police department.
The people running the Arab International Festival have even gone so far as to allow the Arabic Christian Perspective a booth at the festival, so the group’s message is going to get out, to some extent. But the Christians have more volunteers than booth space, so they – as they have in previous years – intended to roam and hand out literature on the public sidewalks adjacent to the festival. First the police department, then a judge in the city of Dearbornistan has stopped them.
A federal judge sided with the city of Dearborn today in a dispute with a Christian group over the distribution of religious literature during an upcoming Arab festival. The decision stems from a lawsuit filed this week by a Christian group who says the city of Dearborn is denying it the right to roam the Arab International Festival to hand out religious literature.
U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds denied a motion from the Christian group for a temporary restraining order that would have prohibited the city from restricting the group from handing out literature, according to a release from the group’s attorneys.
… Dearborn Mayor Jack O’Reilly Jr. said the city strongly believes in free speech and has at least two other Christian groups who will be at the festival handing out information. O’Reilly said the California group, like other groups, is restricted to one place because of crowd control issues. …“We embrace free speech, but we have to manage the large crowds,” O’Reilly said. “We gave them reasonable accommodations.”
The “crowd control” defense disintegrates when you consider this comment by the Christian group’s defense attorney – unless it’s “angry mob” control which is the problem; the response to the Christians, and not the Christians themselves.
They are free to mingle along the Festival just as long as they don’t pass out their free material.
