An evangelical civil disobedience

Josh Moody  |  Features  |  Letter from America
Date posted:  1 Mar 2007
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It’s been coming for some time. But now it’s here (or thereabouts). Yes, you’ve heard right: in Pennsylvania (a state in America; not China, or North Korea, note!) 75-year-old Arlene Elshinnawy and 70-year-old Lynda Beckman were arrested for sharing their faith on the public sidewalk.

They faced 47 years in jail for spreading the gospel because of a Pennsylvania ‘hate crimes’ law. This law is, I’m told, nearly identical to HR 254, the ‘hate crimes’ bill reintroduced in Con-gress and apparently on the ‘fast track’ in the House Judiciary Committee.

Yeah, that’s right — here’s what a free and tolerant society does: lock up your granny for telling someone about Jesus.

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