{"id":13610,"date":"2014-10-08T07:10:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T12:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13610"},"modified":"2014-10-08T12:07:54","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T17:07:54","slug":"inquistor-do-you-accept-jesus-christ-cop-asks-woman-during-traffic-stop-now-shes-suing-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13610","title":{"rendered":"Inquistor: \u2018Do You Accept Jesus Christ?\u2019 Cop Asks Woman During Traffic Stop, Now She\u2019s Suing Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inquistor: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inquisitr.com\/1525274\/jesus-christ-traffic-stop\/#SGLqpEtJfRzQcziB.99\">\u2018Do You Accept Jesus Christ?\u2019 Cop Asks Woman During Traffic Stop, Now She\u2019s Suing Him<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Indiana State Trooper Brian Hamilton pulled over 60-year-old Ellen Bogan for some sort of supposed traffic violation in August, he asked for her license, registration \u2014 and whether she accepted Jesus Christ as her savior.<\/p>\n<p>Now Bogan, who says she is not a churchgoer, is suing Hamilton in federal court, alleging that he violated her constitutional rights when he pressed her on whether she had a \u201chome church\u201d and handed her a brochure imploring her to \u201crealize you\u2019re a sinner,\u201d all while his flashing lights were still on.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton\u2019s \u201cproselytizing and coercive questions\u201d about her belief in Jesus violated Bogan\u2019s freedom of religion under the Constitution\u2019s First Amendment, while the fact that Hamilton detained her to preach about Jesus Christ after he had already ticketed her was a Fourth Amendment violation, the lawsuit, in which the American Civil Liberties Union is backing Bogan, alleges.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inquistor: \u2018Do You Accept Jesus Christ?\u2019 Cop Asks Woman During Traffic Stop, Now She\u2019s Suing Him When Indiana State Trooper Brian Hamilton pulled over 60-year-old Ellen Bogan for some sort of supposed traffic violation in August, he asked for her &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13610\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13621,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13610\/revisions\/13621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}