On the Mall outside of Wilson Library on the Campus of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Student Preachers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ will in an impromptu fashion begin their sermons to anyone within earshot. This is a Spring time occurrence on the campus though sometimes on pleasant days in the Fall you may see a student preaching. It is a tradition of sorts. Many students playing frisbee or just sitting on the grass might look up from their activities to hear. Though people in the distance might make fun of them a certain kind of respect was given near them. It is hard to speak ones beliefs openly like this.
It’s been awhile since I, Publius Jr, was an adult student out of the US Army studying for an engineering degree at the U of M. I generally agreed with the preachers but you’d never see me out there looking like a fool speaking my beliefs in Christianity. Toastmasters has helped me closer. Not letting someone speak their beliefs in a public setting seems wrong in the United States of America, it’s just not #1A.
The following video was produced by Alliance Defending Freedom (that group Doug Wardlow used to work for). It was part of an article posted by the Black Community News on July 16, 2020.