Good thing she wasn’t black. Might have been tasered or shot for resisting Jesus.
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What would happen if someone answered “No officer Jesus is not my savior, but are donuts yours or are they mere indulgences”
Indiana Taliban.
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He would also be violating the law by using the resources of the state to promote his radio show.
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Nope. The Indiana State Police have at least two problem officers.
That pamphlet, Tasing for Jesus, is still at the printers.
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In lieu of a settlement, I’d accept an apology accompanied by a statement by the officer confessing to being an idiot for believing such rubbish. Either that or double the settlement. My get rich quick scheme.
At least she wasn’t pulled out of her car and beaten on the side of the road.
A cop can do all the radio shows he wants on his own time. He can’t use the coercion of the state to evangelize, obviously. It makes me wonder what other sort of teaching he’s getting from Trooper Dan Jones to even think that’s OK.
(Incidentally, a private employer in an employment-at-will state could discipline him for pretty much anything he does in public on his own time, right?)
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Your logic is a little lacking there. You don’t get to agree to settlements and then double them just because the other party doesn’t profess beliefs you approve of. If you can’t agree to a settlement, you just go to trial.
Meanwhile, thank you for balancing this story by reminding us that there are anti-religious bigots as well as religious bigots.
Gonna have to disagree. American Christians aren’t interested in making the world better for everyone. If they were, they would support social programs and reject unregulated capitalism. American Christians are more like the Pharisees in their stories. They want to appear righteous so they have their shot at their paradise. The only reason they evangelize is to get on God’s good side. The vast majority of them couldn’t give two craps about whether or not someone else is Christian other than to hold them up and show how much better the Christian is in comparison.
While libertarians are largely out for themselves, most of them have honestly convinced themselves that ‘what is good for the goose is good for the gander’ and that their policies would be better for everyone. American Christians only pay that idea lip service at best.
If Jesus truly exists, I wouldn’t have gotten pulled over for speeding in the first place!
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what’s the problem? If all it take to get out of a ticket is to say ‘I love Jesus’ then I’m good with that. Gotta be practical
Exactly!!!
Say anything to get out of a ticket, even if the question is against rules and the person of authority has no business asking in the first place. We should have no freedoms in this country; just say whatever someone wants us to say .
If he’d asked her to do a sexy dance for him on the side of the road, she should have just done that as well. Gotta be practical.
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“Do you accept Jesus?”
“Sorry, cash or credit cards only.”
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“…I don’t go to church. I felt compelled to say I did, just because I had a state trooper standing at the passenger-side window…”
That’s the way conservatism works. It’s the only way a minority can keep a majority in line.
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WTF?!?!?!?!
If a state employee wants to evangelize, he should do it on his own time and his own dime.
He should be fired immediately and gone…gone…gone.
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Leave it to those atheist science-worshipping hoity-toity smarty-pants libruls to have a problem with speaking about Jeeeeeeeesus. It’s his First Amendment right to testify on behalf of the Lord, y’know. Y’all want God out of the public squhar.
I guess if he told the woman she was contributing to that voodoo nonsense about global warming because her car was a-puffin’ out smoke, you’d think his religion was just fine’n’dandy, wouldn’t ya?
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…by killing them if necessary.
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This is what the majority of Germans said in the 1930s too.
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