A Southern Baptist journalist might face arrest for photographing gay and lesbian protestors that disrupted a convention of evangelical sex therapists. As long as the journalist is working as a professional journalist, and not an activist, the police should not interfere with the news-gathering process. I and other freelance journalists must not be so intimidated by these arrests that we will retreat to only the safe subjects or flower shows. We must continue to gather news in the danger zones of public opinion. D.C. He writes this weekly column for the Scripps Howard News Service.
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