Close Menu
    Political Commentary

    WATCH: Young Man Arrested while Reading Bible on Sidewalk during Drag Event Refuses to Back Down, Reads Bible During City Council Meeting

    By

    A video that made its way to Twitter on July 31st showed a young man in the town of Waterton, Wisconsin, Marcus Schroeder, arrested by the local police for using a microphone while reading a Bible out loud on the sidewalk during a “Pride” event, a drag queen even called “Pride in the Park.” He refused, however, to back down; once out of jail, he went and read the Bible at a city council meeting in the same town.

    The original video went viral when posted by a conservative Twitter account, which said, “🚨BREAKING: Young man arrested for sharing the Bible on a public sidewalk. Blatant violation of the 1st amendment of The Constitution. Every one of those cops should be fired and sued.”

    The officers were apparently arresting the young man for using a microphone without a permit, though the person filming the video ridiculed the selective enforcement of the ordinance, saying, “You guys are acting like thugs, straight up thugs. He has every right to be out here engaging in speech. There are cars driving around with radios playing, that is amplified sound, people are standing out here with radios, that is amplified sound. The ordinance has to do with a decibel gauge, you don’t just get to pick and choose which amplification you like and which you don’t. That is selective enforcement of the law, that is discrimination on the basis of speech, that is what you all just did.”

    Schroeder told the Republic Sentinel that getting arrested was worth it, saying, “It was worth it. It’s actually an honor to be counted worthy to stand with the cloud of witnesses who have gone before us and been arrested for the sake of spreading Christ and his kingdom. If the police wanted to try and set an example for others or anything like that, the only thing I’ve seen is actually the exact opposite, where more and more people are seeing the severity of what’s going on and being called to more action.”

    Jason Storms, a local church leader who recorded the video, made the same point to the Republic Sentinel that he could be heard making in the video, saying, “The police, per orders from city leaders, arrested several young people. Three were arrested earlier in the day while inside the park praying and talking to attendees, and then released with warnings. It was open to the public, thus the public’s right to free speech carries with them. One was arrested later in the day for preaching on the public sidewalk outside the venue and is being charged with unlawful use of sound amplification and resisting arrest.”

    In any case, Schroeder didn’t give up despite being arrested. Rather, he appeared at a city council event and read the Bible there too. Watch him here:

    In the video, Schroeder said that he has to do what God calls him to do and that as society has grown more tolerant of sin it has grown less tolerant of real Christianity, saying, “Hey, guys, I hope you’re all doing good tonight. I just wanted to ask a simple question. I know, you know, a Nazi group showed up at the event Saturday, and people were talking about that. And I just wanted for all of us to really think about this. What’s wrong with Nazism? Like, seriously what’s wrong with Nazism? Because imagine for a moment that there is no God above us know how below us, no heaven to live for, as John Lennon wanted to imagine, if we are truly the result of evolved startups and our ancestors were fish, and were the descendants of monkeys, then where do we find our value as human beings? What’s wrong with Nazism, unless a few understands that the God of Scripture says that we are made in His image, and so to murder innocent people is a violation to God’s commands. As a Christian, I can say that Nazis what the Nazis did in Nazi Germany was completely horrific, and that they should have been resisted. In fact, the number one people group that resisted the Nazis were Christians. And the reason why, the reason why was because they had a worldview that says that people are made in God’s image and that they have worth and value. That’s why Nazism is wrong. But if we’re going to reject the Christian worldview, then we can’t hold on to the fruit that comes from the Christian worldview, while denying the actual foundation. Intolerance is an interesting word, tolerance and tolerance, hatred, love, bigotry, things like that. Because really, every culture has something that it’s intolerant towards, and something that it’s tolerance of. I mean, there are things like murder and rape and and, you know, stealing and just crimes that we are intolerant towards as a society. And so every society has something that’s intolerant towards the question is just what is our object of intolerance, and what is our object of tolerance? When I showed up Saturday, all I did was read from scripture on the sidewalk, I read from the Bible Galatians. And by the way, I wasn’t reading Romans one, I wasn’t reading any passage that spoke against homosexuality or anything like that, I was reading a passage from the Bible about love. And I was arrested. No reason, not given any warning, not told anything about my amplification needing to be turned down. I was arrested and taken into custody, simply for reading the Bible on the sidewalk. You see, as we become more and more tolerant of sexual immorality in our culture, we’ve become more and more intolerant towards Christian morality. And the more we become intolerant towards Christian morality, the more we’re going to see lawlessness in our streets, the more we become intolerant of Christian morality, the more we’re going to see Nazis, the more we’re going to see people who don’t hold to a Christian worldview, who think that everybody is a result of animals, and therefore, if we are animals, then why can’t we just act like animals. We were called the hate group, we were told that we don’t want to understand the other side. And I just want to set the record straight. I am more than happy to have that conversation with the other side. I did Speech and Debate throughout high school. And one of the things that we were taught in debate is that you can’t make an argument for your side and so you’re able to make the argument for the other side. I’ve sat down and had hours of discussions with LGBTQ activist, I completely understand the other side. I want to understand the other side. But drag queens twerking on kids in Andre is unacceptable. And that’s something that we have to notice as a culture. We can have our disagreements, but there comes a time when we have to understand that we are all going to stand before God one day, and we’re going to have to give an account for what we have done with the children in our society, the innocent minds and the children who deserve to be protected. Thank you”

    Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video

     

    "*" indicates required fields

    GOP should investigate Nancy Pelosi*
    This poll subscribes you to our premium network of content. Unsubscribe at any time.
    This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.




    Related Posts