Arab Festival Protesters Argue Free Speech, Religious Freedom Before 6th Circuit

posted on: Mar 5, 2015

awyers for California-based Bible Believers, a group of Christian evangelists ordered to leave the 2012 Arab International Festival in Dearborn after violence erupted, were scheduled to argue before the 6th U.S. Circuit Court Wednesday that the group’s First Amendment lawsuit against the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office should move forward.

The Bible Believers are well known for provocative protests that include waving a pig’s head on a pole and decrying Islam as a false religion. The Southern Poverty Law Center, an Alabama-based civil rights group, says the Bible Believers is a hate group.

Source: patch.com