Federal court orders El Paso to allow public proselytizing aleteia.org

A federal court has ordered that the City of El Paso, Texas, must allow a Christian man to proselytize at a city farmer’s market.

In Denton v. City of El Paso, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit remanded a case to a Texas federal district court ordering it to grant a preliminary injunction barring El Paso from prohibiting religious proselytizing at the weekly outdoor El Paso Art and Farmers Market.

The plaintiff, Ryan Denton, is an evangelical Christian, who said his faith compels him to engage in proselytization. He proselytizes through literature distribution, conversation, and unamplified preaching…

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