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NEW JERSEY MCDONALD’S ALLEGEDLY BANS HOMELESS BIBLE STUDY FROM MEETING INSIDE RESTAURANT
Dawn Martinez (Photo: Frank Brown via The Christian Post)
A New Jersey woman is looking for a new place to conduct her Bible study for the homeless and drug addicts after she says the McDonald’s where she has held the meeting for the past two years told her she can no longer use it.
“She was really nice about it,” 33-year-old Dawn Martinez told the Christian Post about the manager at the Camden, NJ, restaurant who approached her last week, “but she says, ‘I know that you have been giving Bible studies for a long time but we’ve had a complaint.‘ She didn’t tell me what happened, but she said there was a complaint and that we cannot have our Bible studies there anymore.”
When Martinez asked for more of an explanation, she was told that the group was offending people of other faiths.
“She said, ‘Well you are a Christian and there’s other people of other faiths and so people are getting offended.’ She said, ‘I’m really sorry, but that’s just the way it is.’ I had to cancel the Bible study.”
As for those who were offended, Martinez has a theory: She believes that there were Muslims present at the most recent meeting and overheard a lesson she was giving on the origins of the faith.
“It was a very powerful night. We had one woman join our prayer circle at the table and she was weeping and crying, but that was nothing unusual for our meetings,” Martinez told the Post. “I gave the Bible study. We talked about Isaac and Ishmael. I began to give the history on the descendants of Ishmael and the differences between the Christian and the Muslim faiths because the Muslim faith believes the descendants of Ishmael are the chosen people.”
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