Guess what, guys! We've got blasphemy laws in America again.
Police in Pennsylvania arrested a man on a public sidewalk who was loudly quoting Bible verses across the street from an LGBT pride event in protest of the publically sanctioned display.
Damon Atkins went to a pride event in Reading Pennsylvania and, keeping a respectable distance, began reading Bible verses while holding a sign that reads "Jesus said go and sin no more." His shirt reads "You must be born again."
But the police were only interested in enforcing free speech for one side of the debate.
The police asked him to stop, but Atkins maintained that he was on public property. Then, the moment that Atkins started to speak the words of scripture you can see a trigger went off in the officer and he immediately sprang to arrest the man.
And the LGBT event across the street began to applaud the police for shutting up the street preacher.
The verse Atkins was hoping to share, before being taken in by the police was 1 Corinthians 14:33:
For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
The officer arrested Atkins for "disorderly conduct," according to a statement given to The Daily Caller.
"He was not arrested for reading a bible verse," a representative for the chief of police told the Caller. "He was arrested for being disorderly."
"His volume was at a level that he was heckling a preplanned and permitted event," the spokesperson continued. "He was given an area he was allowed to protest in, and was asked to keep volume at a level that was not problematic or that was inciting public inconvenience."
So, the LGBT+TBA event could have a microphone and a PA system to shout their praises and self-worship, but if a Christian raised his voice to be heard over the raucous pride group, that's breaking the law.
Just so we're all clear.
If you speak out for your faith slightly too loud, it's off to jail. But if you protest for a state-approved cause like Pride or participate in the mostly peaceful BLM riots then you'll be protected from any consequences.
We live in a two-tiered justice system. Just know that if you fall on the wrong side of the regime, you lose your constitutional protections.