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Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

I took Rupert's advice and googled those two gentlemen, and Town Hall, unsurprisingly, is not telling the whole story. Those guys weren't "reading aloud," they were preaching Bible verses at people lined up outside the DMV. In other words, they were taking advantage of a captive audience to prosthelytize. Here in NYC, we deal with subway preachers all the time, who enter a car, and start shouting Bible stuff at us, and let me tell you, Rupert, they are annoying as f*ck. If I'd been standing on line at that DMV I would have been pissed as all get out that an already stressful experience was further shat upon by two guys who felt it was their religious calling to preach at me while I stood in line to get my d*mn picture taken.

But, as articles on the subject point out, the case was dismissed for insufficient evidence. Legally, Christians are allowed to annoy the living daylights out of innocent passersby by shouting at them, and they take full advantage of it. Of the many, many times I have been prosthelytized at (to), I can count exactly one person who was not Christian (a taxi driver who was Muslim, almost 20 years ago).

Disturbing the peace and probably refused to leave which would be tresspassing.
Arrested for reading the bible, utter bullshit. Anyone reading that article and believing it sight unseen really should never be accusing anyone of being brainwashed.