ManInBlack
Regular Member
Greetings, fellow Idahoans! Having moved here a few months ago, I have been excited at the prospect of OC'ing to the polls, which, in my mind, combines our two most sacred rights into one, concrete action. However, as I have been thinking and doing research, a couple of questions have come up in my mind that I am hoping you all can answer:
"My" polling place is Bridgepoint Baptist Church on Broadway here in Boise (near the Federal Way/I-84 turnoffs), although I believe I can go to any polling place to vote.
1) Can the church personnel forbid me from carrying on their private property? To my mind, by agreeing to act as a temporary entity of the Secretary of State, they would lose some of their private property rights. Just as they could not prevent someone from voting if he wore an anti-Christian/anti-religion/anti-God/etc. t-shirt (with the exception, obviously, of a clearly politically partisan article of clothing), they also would not be able to prevent me from exercising one of my fundamental civil rights, now incorporated to the states under the 14th Amendment in the Chicago decision.
2) As near as I can tell, Bridgepoint does not maintain a K-12 school on the premises. However, in the event that they did, or if they have a preschool, would that in any way compromise my right (only in the overreaching eyes of the law, of course) to open carry while voting at the church's polling place?
Thanks for the help, guys! So far, I've open-carried more in the few months I've lived here than I have in the other places I've lived combined. I haven't had any problems yet, and just want to keep it that way!
"My" polling place is Bridgepoint Baptist Church on Broadway here in Boise (near the Federal Way/I-84 turnoffs), although I believe I can go to any polling place to vote.
1) Can the church personnel forbid me from carrying on their private property? To my mind, by agreeing to act as a temporary entity of the Secretary of State, they would lose some of their private property rights. Just as they could not prevent someone from voting if he wore an anti-Christian/anti-religion/anti-God/etc. t-shirt (with the exception, obviously, of a clearly politically partisan article of clothing), they also would not be able to prevent me from exercising one of my fundamental civil rights, now incorporated to the states under the 14th Amendment in the Chicago decision.
2) As near as I can tell, Bridgepoint does not maintain a K-12 school on the premises. However, in the event that they did, or if they have a preschool, would that in any way compromise my right (only in the overreaching eyes of the law, of course) to open carry while voting at the church's polling place?
Thanks for the help, guys! So far, I've open-carried more in the few months I've lived here than I have in the other places I've lived combined. I haven't had any problems yet, and just want to keep it that way!
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