Eleven members of a Christian group spent a night in a Philadelphia jail and are being charged with “criminal conspiracy, possession of instruments of crime, reckless endangerment of another person, ethnic intimidation, riot, failure to disperse, (and) disorderly conduct and obstructing highways,” for the crime of going to a homosexual rally and….peacefully displaying banners and quoting the Bible.
As Doug Newman points out the relative silence of the “Christian right” about the outlawing of quoting the Bible is deafening.
10:31 pm on January 6, 2005