Calif mall outlaws religion speech

[abcgrad94]

limit because one and you limit yourself too, you allow your freedoms to be stripped away too, not just theirs.
I for one would not shop in a store who wanted to strip away my constutional freedoms. When people can tell you what you can and can not sit down with a person and talk about in public you know you've reached a communist state.
What this also means is you can not walk through the mall and talk about anything christian, even to your family and friends.

I see what you're saying, Donna, but I thought the guy was a pastor who INTENTIONALLY went to the mall to evangelize, not to shop? I can see where limiting private conversations while you're shopping would be a problem, but if you're approaching and hindering other shoppers, that's different.

Kind of like having a birthday party at McDonalds. You have to schedule it with the management and pay a fee (or at least years ago that's how they did it.) You couldn't just decide that you'd bring your own food and cake and use their facilities to throw a party during lunch hour, like you would a public park. Management would have a fit, and rightly so.

 

[Magnetic Poles]

I don't live in lexington
and just how does a person get arrested for public intoxication on private property? they couldn't.
can a private person limit your constutional rights? I think not.

No, but you live in Kentucky. Same state laws. As for intoxication, why don't you try it and let us know how that works out for you. Hint: Do some research before stating your "facts" that are just opinion. You are truly way off base.

 

[Marcia]

I don't live in lexington
and just how does a person get arrested for public intoxication on private property? they couldn't.
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Yes, they could be so arrested. The mall security could call the police. If the owner wants to file charges, they could.

This is the same situation as when I lived in apartments here. There was a sign forbidding "solicitation" of any kind - religious or selling stuff - because the apt. property was private property. This is the same thing with malls.

 

[Steven2006]

here it is considered a public place, and unless you prove harressment, you can't limit people, this is not someones house, but a place of business they ahve chosen to make a public place.

Opening ones property to the public does not mean it becomes public property. Far from it, shopping centers are 100% private property regardless if the are open to the public.

Also keep in mind that the property owners customers are not the public, but rather the tenants. The owners have a responsibility to manage the property in a professional manner.

As I mentioned in an earlier post it also could very well be that they are required to enforce this as per the terms of their leases with some of the larger national tenants. Most people would be surprised just how much detail and to what extent some of these commercial leases can cover.

 

[Steven2006]

Now I read where this guy is suing. IMHO doing so is a poor witness, sadly kind of ironic.