Dearborn violates Christian groups’ Constitutional rights
The city of Dearborn, Mich. has prevented a Christian group from exercising their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights.
The Arab Christian Perspective, a group that ministers to Muslims, was banned from handing out religious information at the city’s annual Arab International Festival. According to World Net Daily:
While there never has been a disruption of the public peace during the five years the ministry has been attending, this year Dearborn police warned Saieg he and his group would not be allowed to walk the public sidewalks to hand out information and instead would be confined to a specific spot, the lawsuit said.
Fay Beydoun of the American Arab Chamber of Commerce in Dearborn told the Detroit News there was “no problem” with the Christians being at the event, “but we do have to think about the safety of everyone.”
Why would Christians handing out information at an event full of members of the “religion of peace” create safety concerns? That seems somewhat contradictory.
The complaints cited a police statement that the Christians would be classified among “political parties and protesters,” and would be limited to a single location.
How is it in America, the religion whose recruitment options are: a) Convert; b) Be subjugated; or c) Die continually get a free pass while those who pass out information are considered the “protesters”?
“It’s ironic that while Americans are applauding the free speech exercised by hundreds of thousands of Muslims on the streets of Iran, the city of Dearborn is restricting free speech rights Christians are attempting to exercise on the city’s public sidewalks,” said Richard Thompson, president of the Thomas Moore Law Center, who has filed a case on behalf of the Arab Christian Perspective.
About 30% of Dearborn’s population are Muslims.