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A Wisconsin couple was arrested at the Pride Festival in Minneapolis, Minn., this past weekend for handing out Bibles.
The couple, Brian and Doris Johnson, are no strangers to the Pride Fest. They’ve manned Christian-centric booths there for more than a decade, according to the Minnesota Independent, festooned with Bible verses. They’ve been known to have some, er, vocal discussions with Fest-goers, and this year, the Festival said they weren’t welcome anymore. Undeterred, they came back, anyway — hence the arrest.
“It is not, in our belief, discrimination, certainly not,” Twin Cities Pride chair David Hill told the Independent. “If anything, we’re worried about being discriminated against at our own event.”
So, I’m kinda curious what y’all think about this news story. Were the Johnsons out of line? Is the Pride Fest being ironically discriminatory?
I think that is discrimination and just not right. As long as they weren’t harming anyone, they should have been allowed to stay.