“ABC-TV 15 from Phoenix reports that local Christian proselytizer Dana Crow-Smith was ordered by a ‘Neighborhood Preservation Inspector’ to stop giving out free bottled water last month because she lacked a vending permit, though she was not vending. She is threatening to sue the city with help from the Rutherford Institute, a civil liberties group with a focus on religious liberties, if the city doesn’t apologize and swear to train its enforcement officers to not make the same mistake again.”
http://reason.com/blog/2012/08/20/phoenix-woman-ordered-to-not-give-out-wa
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