“Right now you have to move because I’m telling you that you’re interfering with [their] permit,” the cop said of the Reason Rally organizers.
But one of the preachers shot back, “You are going against the Constitution here in our nation’s capitol.”
The street preacher’s argument was that atheists had secured a non-exclusive permit and that the Reason Rally was open to the entire public. With that in mind, he said that he and his group had every right to be there. The debate, it seems, was over whether the Christians, who did not have a permit, were creating a disturbance.
“This is everything that America was founded on!” the pastor continued. “Freedom of speech and freedom of religion.”...