The Heisters’ Day in Court

Appellants are three lay ministers belonging to a militant fundamentalist sect known as “Heisters,” so called because of their practice of proclaiming their missions with the pronouncement, “This is a heist.”

The basic tenets of their sect are derived from Proverbs, XXIV: 28 “He that trusteth in his riches shall fall.” Eccl. Ill: 12 “The abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.” Matt. XIX: 24 “It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God,” and from Luke 1:53 “He hath filled the hungry with good things and the rich he hath sent empty away.”

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Appellants are three lay ministers belonging to a militant fundamentalist sect known as “Heisters,” so called because of their practice of proclaiming their missions with the pronouncement, “This is a heist.”

The basic tenets of their sect are derived from Proverbs, XXIV: 28 “He that trusteth in his riches shall fall.” Eccl. Ill: 12 “The abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.” Matt. XIX: 24 “It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God,” and from Luke 1:53 “He hath filled the hungry with good things and the rich he hath sent empty away.”