Minister Arrested at Mormon Pageant
I found this article to be of interest. Seems all demonstrations are being clamped down.
Minister Arrested at Mormon Pageant
The Daily Herald has this report of a Christian pastor being arrested for trespassing on PUBLIC property because he upset the mormons.
SALT LAKE CITY -- For the second week in a row, an evangelical Christian minister has been arrested outside a Mormon-themed pageant in northern Utah.
Daniel "Chip" Thompson, the 47-year-old director of Solid Rock Christian Fellowship, a campus ministry at Snow College in Ephraim, was arrested for investigation of criminal trespassing by the Cache County sheriff's office Friday night at the Clarkston Pageant. The pageant depicts the life of Martin Harris, an early follower of Joseph Smith, founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Thompson was with eight others handing out religious tracts that compare Mormonism with the beliefs of other forms of Christianity. He said the Clarkston City cemetery's amphitheater, where the pageant is performed, is public property, so he should not have been arrested.
"The Mormon officials started saying this was against the law -- 'you can't be here,' " Thompson said Monday. "We just said, 'Sir, this is public property and we're within our legal rights to express our freedom of speech and our freedom of religion. This is America.' "
On Aug. 11, Brigham City pastor Joel Kramer, 39, of Living Hope Ministries was arrested at the same pageant for investigation of disorderly conduct in a dispute over Kramer's taping of the pageant for use in Christian videos he produces.
Both Kramer and Thompson have court dates set for Sept. 13 at the Justice Court in Clarkston.
I am not sure if it was the best thing for these two pastors to do. It doesn't seem appropiate (to me) to be taping a activity in order to denounce it without some form of consent.
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