It's a rule to cut down on wackos bothering others in the mall.
Now wording needs to be, only the person being talked to can blow the whistle. The priest will win since the girls didn't have a problem. It's when grumpy grand ma working at the cookie store calls security. Well Security should have had more common sense, cause there is no way they can protect THAT list of charges for a private rule. Best they could do is ask the priest to leave, and if he did not, call police. But of course they reacted like the retards who tackle gandmas for having toe nail clippers in a airport.
It is private property, but unless they have signs up stating the rule, then the manager can't use the defense "People just have to know."
They are gonna be screwed. They can worm out of a few of the charges....but one will stick and screwum up.
Many messed up laws have a point to them, sadly the point was 200 years old. Like in Austin Texas it was illegal to spit on the sidewalk. Mostly due to that was one of the few places paved and when you have a few thousand rednecks spitting chew on it, it gets pretty gross. Now in the day of power washers and the like it is outdated. But you piss a cop off enough he might bust you for it. Oh and motorcycle have "saddle bags" which if you have wire cutters in them your charged as a "cattle rustler" yet the current politicians are to busy to worry bout the old laws.
