A reverend from a Calvary Chapel ministry in california was arrested for reading the bible to a small group who was waiting for a Dept. of Motor Vehicles office to open in Hemet, Calif. The charge?? The officer says he arrested him because he was preaching to "a captive audience" and "impeding an open business", but the DMV office was closed at the time, and calling it a captive audience is ridiculous (according to the preacher's lawyer).
Link to the article..
Taking Liberties: Arrested For Reading The Bible? | Fox News
What do you think?
Was it right for the cop to arrest him or not??
I don't think the fact that it wasn't technically open, means it wasn't still a captive audience. They may have had jobs to get to, homes to get back to and such. They most likely couldn't afford to 'leave' because they didn't like the preaching. The whole 'the business was closed' argument is bogus. It's quite silly too. It's like a child being told not to eat cookies, so the kid shoves them down their throat fast and then says, "What I didn't eat them, I shoved them down my throat."
Anyways, here is how freedom works in truly free societies.
People have the right to do the very thing you're doing to them.
That means if you're ok with this guy reading the bible to people in a dmv line, then you'd be ok with a Muslim, Hindu, or whatever reading to you in a dmv line as you're waiting for it to get open.
That's how freedom works. Unfortunately freedom can't be one sided, so it's just us Christians who get to exercise religious liberty.