Posted on 01/17/2023 5:54:02 AM PST by mikelets456
Mall of Amerikka
see 12: “public accommodations”
-fJRoberts-
These “other shoppers” wouldn’t have names like “Mohammed” or anything, would they?
Now...if he WOULD have been black, whole different enchilada.
“... but this report certainly does not come across as ooooo this mall is just out to persecute and discriminate against anyone who displays christian messages on their clothing”
That is exactly how it comes across if ‘security’ knew this guy and on this day decided to confront him.
-fJRoberts-
No it does not.
This is a guy who by his own admission has violated the rules of the mall and been removed for proselytizing before.
He didn’t get “singled out” as some random person who walked into the mall with a Jesus Saves shirt, but as a known individual who has repeatedly broken the rules of the mall.
Just like if someone has been caught attempting to shoplift multiple times before and removed, and showed up again, and security confronted them.
Neither of these cases are situations of a random individual.
The knee jerk click bait headline is complete BS, and is just trying to get emotional reactions to make the publishers money from your clicks. Trying to portray this guy, as just an average everyday guy who walked into this mall and was randomly confronted for his shirt. Which is just not the case... but that’s the narrative they want to portray to get a reaction.
Stop being played.
I am more surprised any of those complainers can read.
I watched part of the video and in that segment the mall cop clearly told the man to remove the T-shirt, with no mention of proselytizing.
If I was walking past and he said something like “Jesus Saves” that would be OK. But I’d have a problem is he followed me down the hall preaching all the way.
Apparently freedom of speech offends some people even when it’s the truth.
Did you read the actual article?
The man, by his own admission has been removed from the property previously for proselytizing, more than once.
You want to ignore the context of this situation, and be played, then by all means, do so, but this is not a situation where john q public was just randomly confronted by security for wearing a pro Jesus T-Shirt.
This was a known individual with a history.
Whether the mall “cops” handled the situation correctly or legally is another issue entirely, but this guy is a known repeated offender at this establishment.
As I said, CONTEXT MATTERS.... this wasn’t just a random person walked into the mall in a Jesus Saves t-shirt and got harassed, this was a case where someone known to violate the rules repeatedly had returned and got confronted.
You buy into this just a random nobody being persecuted you are no different that the fools who bought into those catholic high schoolers somehow harassing that fool indian activist in DC years ago.
Ok, so what are “ the rules of the mall”?
I’m certain that the mall cops don’t know the meaning of the word proselytize.
What was he actually doing ?
-fJRoberts-
So much for Minnesota nice. Where did all the Scandinavian Lutherans go?
Jesus really gets some people worked up.
Did you read the article? Or did you just knee jerk to the headline like they wanted you to?
This guy, by his own admission had proselytized at this mall on previous occasions and been removed for it. This guy was not some random individual who just happened to walk into the mall that day.
The mall “Cops” knew who this guy was, he was a known repeat offender. Stop trying to turn this into ooo this mall is discriminating against anyone who follows Jesus nonsense.
Context matters.
Did the mall “cops” handle this situation properly or even legally, is a completely different discussion, but trying to turn this into Oh, this mall must be against christians and discriminates against any christian etc is just nonsense.
Go read the article, not just the headline, read the whole thing, you’ll see buried in there is the man admits he’s been removed for proselytizing before.
The mall “cops” aren’t running around looking for Jesus followers to harass.. you want that in MN you just have to walk down the streets of certain parts of Minneapolis, but it won’t be the cops, or anyone in official power, but the residents of certain no go neighborhoods.
Government isn’t telling him to take the shirt off. A private security company in a private business is.
Place of public accommodation. Illegal.
it would be nice to walk in as a group with each religion represented and see which ones get tossed out
From what i understand, that day he wasn’t speaking about salvation. That day he was just wearing the shirt and shopping himself in the mall from what I understood of a previous article. They never told him that he was banned from the mall.
His shirt had the symbols for other religions on the back crossed out intimation that christ is the only way, and some hurty Feely wokester took offense to that, complained, and they were throwing him out based on what he was wearing that day, not based on what he said that day.
From the article
“The security guard said the man’s religious tee still counted as soliciting even if he was not actively preaching”
“However, the man was eventually allowed to keep his shirt on and go about his shopping, a spokesperson for the mall said”
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