Can religious speech be stopped simply because the police say so? That’s the question that the courts will decide in the case of a Buffalo, New York man who was handing out religious literature at an open air festival. Gregory Owen was ordered by police to stop his activities saying that if he continued he would be arrested. When Owen asked what law was being broken the officers informed him that the Buffalo Police Department is the law and that he was to leave the area. Owen is being represented by the Alliance Defense Fund, a public interest law firm. Nate Kellum who is handling the case says, ”people of faith “shouldn’t be threatened with arrest for peacefully expressing their beliefs.”