Members of the Christian ministry, Volunteers for Repent America, arrested in 2006 for allegedly blocking pedestrians during their protests at the Seventh Annual Gay Games, lost their lawsuit in federal appeals court.
The ministry claimed their free speech rights were violated, but the court ruled against them, holding that the Chicago police were concerned narrowly with maintaining orderly flow of traffic and were not discriminating on the basis of the ministry’s message. -db
From the Courthouse News Service, October 5, 2011, by Joe Celentino.