Judge: anti-gay activists permitted to demonstrate at gay events

[ruggerson]

http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/10710007.htm

PHILADELPHIA - Four members of a conservative Christian group may resume picketing gay-themed events in Philadelphia after a judge lifted a restriction that kept them away.

Common Pleas Court Judge Pamela Dembe called the restriction an unreasonable restraint on free speech.

"We cannot restrict people's right to speak or to be near those who might not wish to hear them into the future," Dembe said Friday.

Dembe overturned a ruling by Municipal Court Judge William A. Meehan against the demonstrators, who are affiliated with a local group called Repent America and who say their opposition to homosexuality is based on the Bible. Meehan had ordered the group to stay at least 100 feet away from any "homosexual event."

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Ok, you wanna play this way? How about gays picketing every rightwing religious meeting, march, church event, baptism, school function, to let them know they are coercing their children into a superstitious, harmful "lifestyle" that uses fantasy and magic as a crutch instead of dealing with the realities of life.

Religious rightwing "lifestyles" are very harmful to children and we should stop the indoctrination of American youth, and this judge has just given us the green light to do so.