Rich Penkoski, leader of the street preacher organization Warriors for Christ, is challenging an Oklahoma court order that threatened him with arrest if he posts Bible verses against homosexuality over the next five years.
Warriors for Christ fights against the LGBTQ agenda, exposing establishments that support the ideology, one being a church in Oklahoma.
“Although there was no evidence that Penkoski ever contacted, spoke to, tagged, or met the public figures leading the LGBTQ group, the trial court — based upon claims that the LGBTQ leaders felt terrorized and harassed by Penkoski’s three social media posts on religious and political issues — imposed a five-year protective order against him,” according to the Rutherford Institute.
Reporting from The New American:
“Religious individuals have a clear First Amendment right to publicly cite Bible verses that reflect their concerns about moral issues of the day without being accused of stalking, harassing or terrorizing those who are offended by the sentiments,” said Rutherford Institute President John Whitehead. “This case is a foreshadowing of the government’s efforts to insulate the populace from all things that might cause offense by criminalizing nonviolent First Amendment activities (speech, thought and actions) perceived as politically incorrect.”
