Gotta say that this guy is no better than the lefties who want to turn parks all over the US into latrines. A DMV has a specific purpose and it's not to be a venue for whoever wants to deliver his message to an essentially captive audience no matter how noble the message. (Would anyone want to listen to some Islamic diatribe while waiting on such a line?)
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Want to? But that isn’t at issue here. Suppose the pastor and his partner put their proselytizing in the form of a Q & A (pro-lifers do this when they put themselves in abort mill waiting rooms so that others can hear), and appeared to be engaged in a conversation within earshot of those in line. Or what if the pastor is pretending to talk on his cell phone, but carrying the same message to the bystanders? I suppose if he were yelling, he could be charged with disturbing the peace, or violating a noise ordinance. Are they loitering? Surely they are not using the public sidewalk to camp on, as the OWS folks, to which you seem to compare them. What law would prevent them from what they do?
On a conservative forum, you are going to state that these men, exercising their 1st Amendment Constitutional rights in a public place for a short period of time, while causing absolutely no obstruction to a business, and no damage to their surroundings, are just like the Occupiers, who camped out for weeks in public parks, urinated and defecated in public, and generally trashed their surroundings?
Gotta say that this guy is no better than the lefties who want to turn parks all over the US into latrines. A DMV has a specific purpose and it’s not to be a venue for whoever wants to deliver his message to an essentially captive audience no matter how noble the message. (Would anyone want to listen to some Islamic diatribe while waiting on such a line?)
It is idiocy to think they were a captive audience. They were waiting for the DMV to open. Hemet isn’t that big, the lines aren’t that long (grew up near there) and the people were free to leave and either move out of earshot or wait in their car.
This is a freedom of speech issue and the cop should be fired.