NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge made an initial ruling Tuesday in favor of a Louisiana university being sued by a Christian evangelist who claims he was threatened with arrest if he didn’t stop speaking on campus. U.S. District Judge Ivan Lemelle refused to grant a preliminary injunction requested by the Alliance Defend Fund, a Christian civil rights group that claims Southeastern Louisiana University stifled traveling evangelist Jeremy Sonnier’s constitutional right to speak on campus. –Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected]
Evangelist sues school over speech policy
By The Associated Press
March 3, 2009