A Seattle man was arrested for reading aloud the Gospel of Saint Matthew in a public park as a “Gay Pride” event was taking place.
Matthew Meinecke, often referred to as a “street preacher,” was on public property reading aloud from the Bible without the benefit of amplification when he was rousted and arrested by Seattle’s finest.
SPD has enough resources to send 10 police officers to arrest a preacher reading his Bible in a public park. Because it's such a horrible crime now! pic.twitter.com/pytbNDel9I
— The Seattle Preacher (@mattteamjesus) June 27, 2022
Meinecke was also arrested last week for reading his Bible aloud near a pro-Moloch demonstration.
I’m not sure what the facts were there, but according to reports, the Seattle city prosecutor does not plan on charging Meinecke for anything.
This reveals the true purpose of the arrest was to silence Meinecke so the Gay Pride bunch wouldn’t be upset.
CAUTION: From this point in the article, I imagine some will become angered by the direction this is going.
Apparent is that too many conservatives have blindly bought into the “back-the-blue” nonsense in response to the “defund-the-police” movement and BLM rioting.
And there are those who believe this is misguided.
Think about it, please: Police aren’t guarantors of freedom; they are the enforcers of the administrative state, particularly in congested cities.
Small-town conservative sheriffs would be the exception.
Police unions and cliques of senior police officers are one of the major forces against gun rights.
Time and again, you find the police cheerfully enforcing the most shameful regulations.
During the “pandemic,” police in (at least) New York and New Jersey broke up funerals and gatherings in private homes. They arrested people in empty parks and on deserted beaches. They arrested people for not wearing masks.
Their record on protecting the First Amendment rights of Christians is similarly checkered.
Dearborn, Michigan, had to pay a substantial settlement because the police arrested Christian preachers outside the venue of a Muslim street fair.
Earlier in “Pride” month, police in Coeur d’Alene threatened to arrest Christian ministers presenting a message counter to the depravity going on (see Coeur d’Alene Police Threaten Preachers With Arrest to Protect Gay Pride Event in City Park).
And now we have this [arrest of a street preacher].
If you think you can rely upon the police to act as a bulwark for your rights in the face of a hostile government, you deserve whatever misfortune befalls you.
If you want to support police departments that treat hooded Antifa thuglets as a privileged class and street preachers as the enemy, you should probably reconsider your political philosophy.
We should support law enforcement to the extent that they are keeping our communities safe—county and community sheriffs, in particular.
Beyond that, we owe them nothing.
When they act lawlessly to keep Gay Pride exhibitionists from having their feelings hurt, they have forfeited the right to our support.
Final thought, questions and considerations: When was the last time you considered the Seven Deadly Sins as a collective whole? They are “in order”: pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth.
And what does “in order” mean? Does it mean ‘you can’t have two without one’—much like the Bill of Rights? If this is even partially correct, then it is safe to say ‘pride is the mother of all sins’—and the one which can develop into each of the others in varying ways.
Now consider the craziness of celebrating LGBT Pride Month. Seems the radical left have erred with this creation of another faulty buzz phrase, yes?
And is it not a “sin” that is further tearing apart the fabric of Our once-great Nation—all to the benefit of the democrat-communist cabal?
