You heard right. The histrionic clergymen staged mock arrests -- with the help of publicly funded police officers no less -- to drive home how severely their Jesus faith has come under attack.
MORE: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/03/06/ohio-ministers-in-cahoots-with-cops-stage-their-own-mock-arrests-to-illustrate-christian-persecution/
See also...
Ohio police swoop on local pastors in Akron - and haul them off to jail for 'defending the faith'
http://freethinker.co.uk/2014/03/09/ohio-police-swoop-on-local-pastors-in-akron-and-haul-them-off-to-jail-for-defending-the-faith/
False Arrest: Ohio Cops' Play Acting At Church Garners Bad Reviews
https://au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/false-arrest-ohio-cops-play-acting-at-church-garners-bad-reviews
And...
Ridiculous Report: Catholic League Finds Anti-Catholicism Lurking Under Every Rock
https://au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/ridiculous-report-catholic-league-finds-anti-catholicism-lurking-under
The Bitter Tears of the American Christian Supermajority
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/3/christians-persecutioncomplex.html
False Facebook 'No Religion' Campaign
http://www.snopes.com/computer/facebook/noreligion.asp
"If we look back into history for the character of present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution."
- Benjamin Franklin, Letter to the London Packet, June 3, 1772
