Security at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, ordered a man to remove his “Jesus Saves” shirt or get trespassed from the mall.
“A street preacher in Minnesota who dared to wear a T-shirt declaring ‘Jesus Saves’ to the Mall of America in Bloomington was recently threatened with eviction from the mall if he didn’t remove the shirt because it was offending people.
The T-shirt also had a message stating ‘Jesus is the only way’ with the word ‘co-exist’ crossed out.
‘Jesus is associated with religion and it’s offending people’, a mall security guard can be heard telling the preacher identified as Paul Shoro in a video recorded by Kameko Rawls and shared on Facebook.
Shoro attempted to explain to the security guard that his T-shirt wasn’t about religion but ‘eternal life’, but the security guard told him it’s the same thing.
‘All we are asking you to do is to take your shirt off’, the guard said.
When Shoro insisted that he ‘didn’t speak’ or ‘say anything’ to anyone except wear his T-shirt, the guard insisted the only options he had were to take the offending T-shirt off or leave.
‘If you want to shop here, you need to take that shirt off’, the security guard declared to Shoro forcefully as he kept enquiring why his shirt was offensive.
‘Again, sir, it is religious soliciting, there is no soliciting on property that is private property’, the guard replied.
The preacher would later explain in a follow-up interview with Kingdom Bizness that he had been handing out tracts and witnessing at the mall a few weeks prior to the controversial January 7th encounter and the security guards warned him not to do it.
‘A couple weeks they find out that I am doing this and they warn me, do not do it again and I was really very angry because, I mean, they allow tens of thousands of people in that mall. You know, it’s the biggest mall in America. So I was so mad because they stopped me from preaching the Gospel’, he said.
During the recently concluded Christmas holiday season, Shoro explained that he was suspended for 24 hours for handing out tracts.
The day they mall security told him he needed to take off his shirt he said he told them, ‘I’d rather go to jail or I’d rather die’.
He said the Lord eventually sent an officer to intervene on his behalf. After the officer spoke to the security guards, he was told that he was ‘good to go’ in the mall with his shirt intact.
The video of Shoro’s encounter at Mall of America has since go viral and elicited many reactions from people like Pastor Jay Haizlip of The Sanctuary”. -Leonardo Blair, Christian Post
No amount of “free speech”, “free expression”, or “freedom of religion” will serve as protection for those who go around preaching the Gospel once a formerly Christian society becomes “inclusive” and allows itself to give up its blasphemy laws.
In Christendom, a man was not permitted blaspheme against Jesus Christ. In Satandom, a man is not permitted to blaspheme against the sanctity of globohomo.
It won’t be until Christians replace modern hate crime and hate speech legislation with anti-blasphemy laws that have fallen into nonuse over time, secular society will criminalize anything that is harmonious with Christianity while sacrilegious displays and other grotesqueries are permitted and even promoted in the public sphere.
In the words of Cicero, “Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery”.