Evangelist regains First Amendment rights (One News Now)

Saturday, August 22, 2009

One News Now:  "A street preacher's free-speech rights have been recognized in New Haven, Connecticut.

In 2004, Jesse Morrell traveled to an area of New Haven where young adults frequented bars -- and where he hoped to share the gospel peacefully. Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) attorney Jonathan Scruggs picks up the story.
 
'On four separate occasions, two police officers essentially came up to him and ordered him to move, ordered him to stop speaking because he was annoying people,' he recalls. 'Evidently his message was not being well received by the college students.'"

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