Had it with people expressing their religious beliefs in your face? Me too. I’m fed up with people like this guy, getting all “religious” on me at the corner of SW Yamhill and 3rd. Fortunately, what he’s doing will soon be ILLEGAL. And downtown shoppers will be free to spend their money at Nordstrom Rack without being bothered by the spontaneous expression of this man’s religious views. Thank the Lord. I mean, thank the, er….PREACHER: STOP OBSTRUCTING MY SIDEWALK!

Commissioner Randy Leonard voted against the sit/lie law yesterday for just this reason—it places restrictions on free speech. Bizarrely, this chap would be free to sit where he is if he were accompanied by two other people, since that qualifies under the ordinance as a free speech assembly.But if you’re a lone preacher, legally, you’re done for, because the city’s law-makers don’t want any lone homeless people saying they have a right to lie in the sidewalk as an “act of free speech.”