Homosexual Activist Bars Salvation Army From US Post Office Steps Because They Are Christian

Post office shoos Salvation Army bell ringers away
Charity collectors are told to move from profitable Brea site after soliciting there annually for 25 years.
By LOU PONSI
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

BREA – The man who prompted the U.S. Postal Service to shoo away Salvation Army bell ringers says he just wants the law obeyed.

Postal Service regulations prohibit any organization from soliciting on its properties. But Salvation Army bell ringers had been allowed to become a mainstay in front of the Brea post office during Christmas for 25-plus years.

On Nov. 24, when Sean Thomas saw the iconic bell ringers at the Birch Street post office – staffed by employees of the Evangelical Christian Credit Union – he decided to speak up. The Salvation Army is a Christian organization.

"How can we have a church set up a collection facility in front of a federal building?" (Radical Secularism Wants A Monopoly) the 65-year-old Brea resident said today; he is chairman of human resources for the Unitarian Universalist Church in Fullerton. "I wanted to know who allowed these people to be here. … I don't think it is appropriate."

Thomas, who is gay, said he was partly motivated because he views the Salvation Army as anti-gay. A Salvation Army official today disputed that characterization.