Posted on 04/27/2007 8:36:48 AM PDT by 4lifeandliberty
On the morning of April 18, Kutztown University (Pennsylvania), exhibited intolerance and hostility towards the gospel. Shortly after we began ministering at Kutztown University a crowd of approximately 400 to 500 students surrounded the team of Gospel preachers.
Even though this is a state university and a classic free speech venue, the university police force ordered the Christians to leave the campus immediately. The police then, at the urging of a hostile crowd, arrested two preachers from the ministry team. As the remainder of the team left with police escort, they were followed by several hundred angry and profane lovers of tolerance. The ministry team is a unified outreach of several gospel ministries from across the nation. The two team members who were arrested were charged with disorderly conduct. One university police officer was relieved of his immediate duties and then suspended when he questioned the Constitutionality of participating in the obvious discrimination of the Christian group. He is now awaiting further disciplinary actions.
"OFFICER UPDATE" On April 26, Officer Steve Armbruster was called upon to appear for a disciplinary meeting. He was given 5 days with no pay. He has served with the Kutztown University police for 15 years.
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Approximately 30 Christians participated in the tour. Here is a recap of the stops made.
Day 1
Day of Silence visit to Abington High School. Students came out to protest our presence and our group had several good conversations with the kids.
Kutztown University. This stop could have been great if it had not been for the police opposition. Hundreds of students gathered and it quickly became apparent that this was an intolerant school toward the call to repentance and the clear teachings of the gospel. In the end, two Christians were arrested and one Officer was suspended, and the rest of the team was escorted off of the campus.
Day 2
Upper darby High School. Great stop as always. The students pour into this school from the sidewalks and hundreds the gospel tracts are given out.
Landsdowne intersection. We set up at the main intersection in downtown Landsdowne. Landsdowne has sought to draw homosexuals to their community and has declared themselves to be a "No Place For Hate" zone. In a nutshell, the Biblical teachings on sodomy are considered hate speech in this "tolerant" community. The Gospel was preached and literature was distributed.
East Stroudsburg University. Upon arrival, Jeremy and Jim began to preach to a growing crowd of students. Jim was arrested and the team was topld to leave the campus. We set up on the public sidewalks that ran through the campus and soon a huge crowd of students had gathered to oppose the preaching. I am amazed at the hardness of heart on many Unversity campuses now. The crowds became so large that the police asked us to leave. Through negotiations they agreed to allow us to return to the center of the campus to preach where there was more room. The team set up and ministered for several more hours. Miles delivered and excellent defense for the gospel. and sinners were called upon to turn to Christ. The hearts were very hard and the mouths were just as vulgar. Nevertheless, the truth was presented and much literature was distributed.
Day 3
Millersville University. Started out slowly as the police made the preacher (Jeremy) stay within a "free speech" area. Eventually a large crowd of students gathered. The Gospel was preached through the day and the students asked many questions that were answered from the Scriptures. Many great conversations were had. Literature was distributed throughout the campus.
BTTT
HIDEOUS.
I realize this will become the minimal norm. But we must do what we can to prevent such as long as possible.
Absolutely outrageous.
The mystery for me is this:
If I see a gathering and I don’t like what I am hearing, I move on.....walk away.
In these instances, why don’t those opposed do the same?
Free speech for thee, but not for me?
HUmm
Off campus group
Message not recieved? maybe if they read thier own Bible, they could have avoided the whole of the problem....
Matthew 10:14
14 If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town.
Mark 6:11
11 And if any place will not welcome you or listen to you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave, as a testimony against them.”
Luke 9:5-6
5 If people do not welcome you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave their town, as a testimony against them.” 6 So they set out and went from village to village, preaching the gospel and healing people everywhere.
Luke 10:11-12
11 Even the dust of your town that sticks to our feet we wipe off against you. Yet be sure of this: The kingdom of God is near.’ 12 I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town.
Acts 13:51-52
51 So they shook the dust from their feet in protest against them and went to Iconium. 52 And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 7:6
6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
Of course, YMMV.
Kutztown? That’s some sleepy territory, not far from me. Church on every corner. (And not too many sharp corners!) Pretty scary if they’re harassing Christians in Kutztown!
You continue to have free speech, so long as you only speak speech that is approved speech.
Totalitarianism.
As a matter of law, schools have the right to demand that off-campus groups not conduct demonstrations ON CAMPUS.
It’s state property, but you can’t camp out on campus, or the governor’s office, just because you want to.
Yes, you have free speech rights, but their are property rights too. You may not like it. It is the law.
All very true.
But the issue here is the SELECTIVE application of free speech to only those who attack American, God, and our cultural norms.
This went on back in the 1960’s when I was in college and graduate school, but has become far more aggressive in its implementation recently.
Most college students arrive on campus with their minds tabulae rasae. They are systematically brainwahed by the radical Bolsheviks who have gradually infiltrated college faculties and administrative circles.
To stop this we need to cut off all funding to insitutions of “higher learning” which pracise this kind of behavior and target for removal those professors who make a career out of warping young impressionable minds.
If other groups are allowed on to propagandize but Christians aren’t, it’s against the law.
Much agree.
Thanks.
The signs posted on walls were different and the campus added some building with a Crescent on the roof - I assume it’s a muzzie study center.
The kids I knew pertty much had their minds made up before they went to school, but I can’t speak for the fuzzy schools (PolySCi and the like). Chip heads were different then and are today.
If a group of (Christians, muzzies, Moonies, whatever) get a cold shoulder, they should cut their losses and leave. The more clueless are assisted by the local Gendarmes.
They have the right to say what they want...it’s not a matter of shaking the dust. They had a right to speak.
From the story it sounds like these ‘preachers’ were as popular as Fred Phelps & his traveling Zoo. Would you support old Fred and his free speech?
To end, one persons call to Faith may be viewed as 'hate speech' by another, it just depends on where you stand. I believe the police officer thought he was defusing a situation that could have quickly gotten out of hand, and someone injured.
I guess next time he should wait until someone gets a busted head, 'eh?
Bet many of the universities they visit were started by Christians to train ministers and missionaries. VERY sad.
That’s a matter for redress in the civil courts, via litigation. It’s not a green light to break the law.
Just because cops do not stop every speeder does not mean you can speed.
Sorry, it’s the law.
And thus it begins!!! or continues!!!
The law is,
if some off campus special interest groups get to propagandize, speak, distribute literature . . . then it must be a level playing field for all nonviolent groups to do the same.
That’s THE CONSTITUTION.
Do you have a problem with that?
WACO taught the government thugs that it’s ok to do whatever you want to U.S. citizens...
It’s OK to hate Christians. - Book 1 Verse 1 of the Gospel of Liberalism.
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