Christian Man Aggressively Arrested, Shackled for Reading Bible Verse at
Pride Event
A Christian man was arrested
for protesting a "Pride" event on a public street in Reading, PA.
Damon Atkins was reciting a Bible verse when he was arrested as the man filming
says, "I cannot believe I'm watching this." pic.twitter.com/SmvPlhr900
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Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) June 6, 2023
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA)
A Christian man was arrested and thrown into a wall by three police officers
after peacefully protesting a Pride event by reciting a Bible verse to members
of the LGBT community in
Reading, Pennsylvania. A disturbing video showed the incident, which has since
gone viral.
The video captured David Atkins defending his
right to demonstrate on a public street. However, before he could finish
his bible verse, a seemingly frustrated police officer abruptly shouted,
“That’s it. You’re done.” A bystander, who recorded the video, expressed shock
at the arrest, exclaiming, “I cannot believe I’m watching this.”
Atkins, who intended to recite 1 Corinthians 14:33,
pleaded with the officer before the arrest, “This is public property,” to which
the officer callously responded, “I don’t care.” Undeterred by the officer’s
aggressive tone, Atkins replied, “God cares.” The officer, attempting to kick
the Christian man out, dismissively stated, “Let them have their day,”
referring to a crowd of LGBT activists who were recelebrating the month-long
gay pride.
As the fed-up police officers handcuffed him, a
shocked Atkins made a final attempt to recite the Bible verse, saying, “For God
is not the author […],” but he was forcefully pushed against a nearby wall
and escorted away as the LGBT crowd broke into chants and shouts.
According to an affidavit filed by Officer Bradley T. McClure, Atkins was
arrested over alleged “disorderly conduct.”
During an interview with Dan Andros, a managing
editor for the Christian Broadcasting Network, Atkins recounted that he
had just shown up to the event when he was confronted by the aggressive
officer. Atkins shared, “[The officer] comes right up to me and he
says—it’s almost like I felt it was the enemy telling me, ‘You’re going to be
quiet.’”
Atkins said he recalled he had a constitutional
right to be there. “I thought of the First Amendment, it popped in my head,
like, ‘No, sir. This is public property. I’m not being rude, I’m just here to
spread the gospel to Good News, ‘Jesus Christ saved me and He can everyone,
including the officer,” he continued.
The disturbing video concluded with the bystander
telling Atkins, “God bless you, brother.” This incident does not appear to be
an isolated event.
In April, for example, a Christian man was arrested and thrown to the ground by a gang of officers
for preaching at a pro-abortion rally in Orlando, Florida. A pastor in Clearwater,
Florida was also detained on a separate protest outside an abortion
clinic.
More demented bigotry from the increasingly pathologically obsessed Gene Vincent.
ReplyDeleteIt is becoming blindingly obvious that Gene's obsessive hatred for homosexuality and homosexuals is curdling into a pathology, if not a psychosis. The strain of lying to himself about his own sexual ambivalence - evidenced not least by his over-wrought fixation on anal sexual intercourse, both hetero- and homosexual - is obviously approaching a point where something is about to give way.
Gene's personality crawls with clues - his claims to have fathered children with other men's wives - not only heterosexual but dominantly and piratically so; his boasting about his shameless sexual groping of young female colleagues [he would have run a mile had one of them opened her legs for him]; and of course his coarse scoffing at homosexuals - shirt-lifters, poofters, nancy-boys - all unmistakable evidence of his own self-loathing.
Most telling of all is his reaction to this insight - immediate censorship and removal of a post about it yesterday. Gene's inability to face the truth about himself is part of the series of fugues, flights from reality, of which the one he cannot face is the fact that the love he cannot stop himself obsessing about is also the one he dare not name in his own psyche. Sad, so sad.
Nor is there any point in refuting the crazed piffle of his current abusive posts about homosexuality. If you do, Gene will not engage with your arguments. Rather he merely selects statements from your counter-arguments, adds them to his original post and then simply gainsays them without engaging with your argument, usually adding an ad hominem insult about the your “impaired mental condition”. In this way he hopes to prevent any readers from following the argument below his original posts, thus distracting attention from the fact that his demented bigotry is, always and inevitably, humiliatingly and completely, exposed and defeated.
It also enables him to claim victory in arguments in which he is crushingly defeated. He used the same dishonest tactics years ago on TES Opinion, when his inept casuistry regularly turned him into a laughing stock, and his obtuseness used to both amuse and enrage.
I for one am done with wasting my time arguing with Gene, who has no regard at all for truth, honesty and integrity in debate. All he cares about is “winning” and, given that his arguments are so intellectually feeble and logically flawed, the only way he can even appear to win is to cheat.
He will, no doubt, claim that my resolve to stop debating his ridiculous bigotry is another “victory”, crowing about “bottle jobs” and insulting me as becoming senile - that is par for Gene’s malicious, nasty and shallow character. But somewhere, deep down, Gene knows what a shabby, dishonest, hypocritical fraud he is; and one day, I hope, he will find the guts to own this.
Miracles, after all, do happen.