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Last summer, Tommy Pouchie and Mike Anderson visited Norfolk's Harborfest, an annual, three-day public celebration of the area's nautical heritage that draws hundreds of thousands of people. Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) attorney Jonathan Scruggs notes the sequence of events in June 2008 involving his two clients.

"They wanted to go talk about their religious beliefs but also display signs -- kind of sandwich-board signs that you would wear. And they went and they were prevented," he explains. "They were actually escorted out by some police officers who told them they couldn't display their signs pursuant to city policy."
 
Both left as instructed but contacted ADF for help. Scruggs agreed their constitutional rights were violated and wrote to city attorneys. "We think that would have been a violation of First Amendment principles," he adds, "and I think the city agreed with us and made changes accordingly."
 
Now Christians will be permitted to express their faith without restriction during future Harborfest events.

Reported on OneNewsNow.com

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