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« on: January 24, 2015, 12:11:53 pm »

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Big Free-Speech Issue over Small Church Signs

Pastor Clyde Reed faces fines and even jail time if his church signs are left up for too long, are too big, or too many in number. Increasingly, the attacks on our freedoms are playing out at the local level. Watch their story...




Some small church signs in the tiny town of Gilbert, Arizona, have become a big issue before the U. S. Supreme Court. Good News Community Church, pastored by Clyde Reed, rents temporary meeting places for his congregation and uses small, removable signs to direct members to it.

City fathers objected to the signs and placed a tighter restriction on their use than they did on political and commercial signs. Reed contends that everyone (both political and religious), should have the same rights.

After working its way through the lower courts for several years, the case was argued before the Supreme Court January 12. The Reeds were represented by attorney David Cortman of the Alliance Defending Freedom. ADF is one of several organizations who step up against attacks on freedom issues around the country.

Increasingly, the attacks on our freedoms are playing out at the local level. Another ongoing battle is in Houston, Texas, where the local churches have stood up against the lesbian Mayor's try to open bathrooms to transgenders.

ADF points out: "The outcome of this [Gilbert, Arizona] case will affect more than a few little church signs. The First Amendment requires equality in the marketplace of ideas. By stating the church’s signs are less valuable than political and other speech, the town is ignoring the church’s free speech rights and claiming to have the power to handicap, and even eliminate, speech it deems unimportant... If the government can single out and restrict religious signs without a compelling reason, what other types of free speech could it censor?"

The key concept here is the “equality in the marketplace of ideas.” America’s founding fathers did something unique in the governments of the world at that time. They established a level playing field for all religions, primarily because they believed that if the gospel was given total freedom, it would prevail over all competing religions and philosophies. Today, that freedom is under attack by forces that hate the truth of the gospel, but want to see their lies prevail. They fear that, if the gospel is preached in power, they will lose.

Fifty years ago Islam’s leaders discouraged Muslims from coming to America for fear they would be won to Christ. As churches lost their soul-winning zeal and Christians abandoned witnessing, Islam as well as Humanists, Atheists, Pagans, Homosexuals, Evolutionists and every other brand of Satan’s delusions have drawn swords against the gospel.


The really scary thing about these battles, if even a local government decides to restrict your freedom, the cost of defending it can bankrupt a church or Christian-run business, even if you win. Organizations like ADF are vital in these conflicts. But such battles are only part of a losing war if we don’t recover the zeal for the gospel. Satan does not play fair because he has a losing team.

Jesus said that, for those who know the truth, it will set them free. But they will not be free until they know the truth. In the past, those who prayed down a revival also worked hard to spread the truth, usually with saturation of the culture with no-nonsense gospel literature and tracts.
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