Texas cops threaten preachers in viral video, stating, ‘If someone is offended by your talking, then we have a problem.’
Free Speech Concerns Raised Over Texas Officer’s Statements In many European countries, individuals face arrests for “offensive speech,” but the First Amendment in the United States protects most forms of speech, including those some may find objectionable. However, a police officer in Fort Worth, Texas, named Sarah Stogner has sparked debate recently. She was filmed […]
Viral video captures Texas police stopping street preachers at Pride event — Trump’s DOJ promises to intervene
Police Confront Street Preachers at Texas Pride Event A recent incident involving Texas police and Christian street preachers has garnered significant attention from the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s Civil Rights Division. David Grisham, along with another member of his team, faced off with a female officer while they were engaging with attendees at a Pride event […]
Court Approves Street Preacher’s Free Speech Appeal
Supreme Court Allows Mississippi Preacher’s Challenge on First Amendment Grounds The Supreme Court has, on Friday, agreed to let a Mississippi street preacher’s First Amendment case move forward. Gabriel Olivier was convicted for preaching outside a “designated protest area” in a public amphitheater and subsequently, he filed a lawsuit in 2021 to block the enforcement […]
From being a preacher’s child to struggling with meth addiction — the events at 3am altered my life completely.
Reflections on Healing from Trauma I grew up as the child of a traveling evangelist. My mother, one of the kindest people I know, hid a lot beneath her graceful facade. Behind that exterior was a desperate need to maintain the illusion of a perfect life. Reality, however, was quite different. The man who preached […]
‘Bling Bishop’ robber wants lighter sentence because of preacher’s own crimes
A former inmate who robbed Brooklyn pastor Lamore Whitehead, aka “The Bling Bishop,” during a livestreamed sermon is asking for leniency in his sentence because the flamboyant preacher is also a con man. Whitehead is a “career con man and liar” who was sentenced to nine years in prison in June after a jury found […]