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Minister Will Face Potential Arrest for Reading Christmas Story from Bible at Capitol Christmas Tree
Christian Newswire ^
| 12/21/11
Posted on 12/22/2011 9:44:16 AM PST by marshmallow
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"Freedom of religion means freedom from religion" story, du jour.
To: marshmallow
Reading from the Koran would be ok; I have no doubt.
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posted on
12/22/2011 9:48:45 AM PST
by
Jukeman
(Not Romney, not now, not ever!)
To: marshmallow
I bet you can celebrate Christmas in Red Square with no hassles.
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posted on
12/22/2011 9:48:45 AM PST
by
AU72
To: marshmallow
What constitutes “an illegal demonstration”?
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posted on
12/22/2011 9:49:38 AM PST
by
NEMDF
To: marshmallow
It seems the capitol police is a far-left organization, no sarcasm.
To: marshmallow
Ridiculous! We sure have been hammered on religion and morality since the muzzie took office.
Kill all the Christians and Jews works for him!!
To: marshmallow
Only violence is prohibited. They had Nazis marching up broadway (a public street) during WWII.
He's going to do it. I hope 1000 people join him.
To: marshmallow
Rev. Mahoney told Capitol Police officials he would still read the Christmas Story and hold the Nativity Display on Thursday even if it meant arrest or citation. Good for him! Presumably Hussein's already instructed the State-controlled media to ignore the arrest story.
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posted on
12/22/2011 9:56:47 AM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
To: marshmallow
Your use of the Bible or the ornament (Nativity Scene) would convert your activity, in the view of the Capitol Police, into a prohibited demonstration.This is crazy! If all activity - reading the front page of "USA Today" while holding a basketball - would be prohibited, then I suppose that's a weird but consistent position. However, if "demonstration" is allowed at all, the authorities should consider the content irrelevant unless it's a direct threat to the White House or its occupants.
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posted on
12/22/2011 10:00:10 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Two women in one house ... and one of 'em a redhead!)
To: marshmallow
I wish I could join him there. May a potential arrest lead to a SCOTUS ruling that puts an end to this nonsense once and for all. ATHEISM IS NOT THE STATE RELIGION, despite the massive effort to make it so by purging all things God from the public square.
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posted on
12/22/2011 10:00:16 AM PST
by
NonValueAdded
("At a time like this, we can't afford the luxury of thinking!")
To: marshmallow
So why did he ask them about it?
Couldn’t he just do it?
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posted on
12/22/2011 10:00:16 AM PST
by
Adder
(Say NO to the O in 2 oh 12)
To: marshmallow
Sounds like he is hoping to be hassled in order to get publicity.
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posted on
12/22/2011 10:04:06 AM PST
by
iowamark
To: marshmallow
Why do they call it the Capitol Christmas Tree instead of the the Capitol Winter Solstice Tree?
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posted on
12/22/2011 10:17:24 AM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: iowamark
So? Sometimes you have to test the artificial fences erected by the secular atheist establishment in order to set limits on their power.
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posted on
12/22/2011 10:20:15 AM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: COBOL2Java
I hope several thousands of faithful Christians get together in support of Rev Mahoney and sing Praise to the Lord at the Capitol Christmas tree, let Obama show to the world how Christians are also persecuted in the U.S. by atheists and Islamists, just as they are oppressed and persecuted by Muslims in Egypt, Iraq and around the Middle East and Africa.
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posted on
12/22/2011 10:31:36 AM PST
by
Dqban22
To: NEMDF
What constitutes an illegal demonstration? In a banana republic, anything the government says on any given day.
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posted on
12/22/2011 10:41:25 AM PST
by
ChildOfThe60s
( If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there)
To: iowamark
Sounds like he is hoping to be hassled in order to get publicity. Civil disobedience, perhaps?
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posted on
12/22/2011 10:46:36 AM PST
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: marshmallow
Is it too late to arrest the Apollo 8 astronauts?
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posted on
12/22/2011 11:03:05 AM PST
by
Sans-Culotte
( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
To: Sacajaweau
You know, people all over the country could go to their public squares and read the Christmas story from the Bible, at noon every day until Jan 8th. That would be a thing to behold.
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posted on
12/22/2011 11:07:23 AM PST
by
combat_boots
(The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
To: marshmallow
As he had the forethought to advise the police of his plans, and they of advising him he risks arrest if he proceeds as planned, he should now advice the police that he will sue them PERSONALLY for deprivation of a constitutionally protected right. Put the monkey right back on them, so they have no excuse to not check it out before arresting him, which makes the violation willful and outside of protection of “immunity for an official act.”
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posted on
12/22/2011 11:19:29 AM PST
by
Cboldt
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