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Prayer, Plain and Simple
Should Prayer on a Public Sidewalk Be Grounds for Arrest?
By
Mark Herringshaw
Offended? A 25-year-old Northwestern graduate student named Joseph Holland was charged with disorderly conduct for praying in front of a Planned Parenthood facility in Chicago. Holland claims he was standing still praying the rosary on a public sidewalk on July 3 when police arrested him for violating the city’s new “Bubble Zone” ordinance, a law…
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