A Kutztown University police officer is asking a federal appeals court to rule that he had the right to "refuse an unconstitutional order" to disperse antiabortion and antihomosexual demonstrators.
Cpl. Steve Armbruster said he was ordered to "push" off campus 15 protesters from Repent America, an evangelical group based in Lansdowne that was being confronted by hundreds of student counter-demonstrators.
Armbruster refused an order by both the university president and the campus police chief, contending it would violate the group's civil rights and subject him to liability. Armbruster was relieved of his duties and later suspended for five days without pay.
News accounts at the time described "hundreds of angry Kutztown University students" confronting "street evangelists who unexpectedly showed up on campus Wednesday to rail against gays, Jews, Catholics, and abortion."
Campus police ordered both sides to disperse, university officials said at the time, and officers were ordered to eject the evangelists from campus on the ground of disorderly conduct.
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