Texas Pastor Pleads Guilty to Yelling Anti-Gay Nonsense at Supreme Court
A
self-described pastor who tried to drown out President Obama’s second
inauguration with shouting has pleaded guilty to trying to drown out the
Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage ruling with shouting. He faces up to
one year in prison. That will probably not deter him from future
shouting.
Rives Miller Grogan, 50, previously from California, now living in Mansfield, Texas, was arrested on April 28
after trying to interrupt oral arguments in Obergefell v. Hodges, the
case where SCOTUS ultimately ruled that the states have to recognize
same-sex marriage. Grogan was dragged out of the Supreme Court chambers
after yelling gay marriage supporters will “burn in hell for eternity”
according to the Bible. Courthouse News reported Tuesday that Grogan has accepted a plea bargain, pleading guilty to “picketing or parading in violation of federal law.”
Grogan has
been arrested five times since 2009 for similar demonstrations,
according to the Washington Post. His last highly publicized run-in with
the law was in 2013, when he climbed 40 feet up a tree and tried very hard to shout over President Obama’s inaugural address. After
that one, he was handed a restraining order that temporarily banned him
from the whole of DC. RH Reality Check notes that Grogan is also an
anti-abortion activist who once ran on the field during the World Series with a sign that read “ABORTION IS SIN”
and “Vote Romney/Ryan” on its reverse side. Photos and video of his
stunts show that he likes to demonstrate bare-chested underneath an open
jacket.
On Grogan’s
highly informative Twitter page, you can learn his stances on various
issues, namely that abortion is bad, gay marriage is bad, and God is
real upset.
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