Judge goes off deep end to shut up Christians
Suppression of speech fine if Muslims threaten violence
A federal judge has issued a startling ruling that suppressing Christian speech is allowed when Muslims threaten violence because they’re upset over the message.
The ruling from Judge Patrick J. Duggan in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan granted Wayne County’s motion for summary judgment of a lawsuit brought by a team of Christians who were badgered, bullied and targeted with garbage thrown by Muslims who disliked their message at last year’s Arab Fest in Dearborn, Mich.
Officials with American Freedom Law Center, who have been arguing the case on behalf of the Christians, also said the judge denied AFLC’s motion requesting that the court issue an order preventing the Wayne County Sheriff and his deputies from restricting the Christian evangelists from displaying their banners and signs on the public sidewalks outside of this year’s Arab Festival. It is scheduled for June.
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In his ruling, Duggan said, “The court finds that the actual demonstration of violence here provided the requisite justification for [the Wayne County sheriffs’] intervention, even if the officials acted as they did because of the effect the speech had on the crowd.”
The case had been filed by the AFLC after several Christian evangelists were violently assaulted by a hostile Muslim mob while preaching at the festival last year in Dearborn, which has the largest concentration of Muslims in the United States.
The lawsuit, which will be appealed to a higher court, alleged the county, sheriff and deputies refused to protect the Christians from the attack, and they threatened to arrest the Christians for disorderly conduct if they did not halt their speech activity and immediately leave the festival area.
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Judge goes off deep end to shut up Christians
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My question is, what did the signs and banners say? Were they offensive? Also, why did they feel it necessary to interrupt their festival by putting up banners outside their event? Pushing Christianity on others never works. We can witness to people without being so disrespectful. We need to share the LOVE of Christ – let’s be careful Christians, what we do and how we act. Picketing with signs and preaching at someone else’s heritage festival is not the way to go. It will not win anyone over, if anything will make them mad and dislike Christians even more.
Amen, Crystal. I as Christian am embarrassed by the behavior of some so called Christians.
As far as effective evangelism goes, I am with you, Crystal but as far as the law and the constitution goes, no one has a right to suppress speech to avoid offense. In fact the First Amendment exists to protect ‘offensive’ speech.