Should it be illegal to offer to pray for someone or is it free exercise of religion?

[columbus]

If someone was praying to me on my way to a medical facility, I'd probably either reject it politely or have the person arrested for harassment depending on the circumstance.

I don't remember ever actively rejecting a prayer.
As an openly gay atheist in a small Christian town, who spends a fair amount of time doing volunteer stuff and going to church, I get prayed for a lot.
I suppose if I thought someone was really trying to puss me off I might, but that's super rare. Possibly because I am nearly as acerbic in real life as I am on RF. Passing me off doesn't usually end well.
Tom

 

[Revoltingest]

I don't remember ever actively rejecting a prayer.
As an openly gay atheist in a small Christian town, who spends a fair amount of time doing volunteer stuff and going to church, I get prayed for a lot.
I suppose if I thought someone was really trying to puss me off I might, but that's super rare. Possibly because I am nearly as acerbic in real life as I am on RF. Passing me off doesn't usually end well.
Tom

Dang, you sound like a real angry chip on the shoulder type.
I'll pray for you.
(But don't worry....I won't pray the gay away.)

 

[SomeRandom]

I don't remember ever actively rejecting a prayer.
As an openly gay atheist in a small Christian town, who spends a fair amount of time doing volunteer stuff and going to church, I get prayed for a lot.
I suppose if I thought someone was really trying to puss me off I might, but that's super rare. Possibly because I am nearly as acerbic in real life as I am on RF. Passing me off doesn't usually end well.
Tom

It's more like they are really condescending to me. So I just ignore them.

 

[Jedster]

People who pray for others without their permission, especially those who verbally ask to do so, **** me off. I don't think there should be a law against it, unless it becomes harassment, in which case, it should be dealt with accordingly. I think it should become harassment pretty easily, the act it self borderline on it anyways.

A bit like baptism for the dead. My would-have-been-uncles-&-aunts(Jews),murdered by the Nazis would not have wanted this and been deeply insulted by this spirtulal' ego/arrogance'.
Baptism for the dead - Wikipedia

 

[Milton Platt]

An Anglican priest on public property was arrested and faces fine and imprisonment for offering to pray with two women as example.

http://www.lifenews.com/2016/12/02/...g-outside-planned-parenthood-abortion-clinic/

I don't know that you should have been arrested because I don't have all the facts. But I suspect it may have been the nature of the prayers you were offering, and that you were being being a nuisance.