Canell

Alvin Howard Canell appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment dismissing his § 1983 action against Officer Roderick Lightner, Sheriff Robert Skipper, and the Multnomah County Detention Center for violations of his First Amendment rights. 1 We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We affirm. •

BACKGROUND

During the two-month period from March 4, 1993 to May 17, 1993, Canell was held in pretrial detention at the Multnomah County Detention Center. During a part of that time, Lightner worked three nights a week .as a correctional officer in the unit where Canell was housed. Canell alleges that Lightner, a-licensed minister of the Church of God, actively sought to convert inmates to' his Christian faith. According to Canell, Lightner regularly brought his Bible to work and placed it in the inmates’.plain view. He engaged in religious' debate and discussion with inmates, performed mock preaching, and sang Christian songs while on duty. For example, one evening .while Canell was *1212 watching a television program about a gay pride march, Lightner told him that homosexuality was wrong and proceeded to cite several Bible passages. Canell further alleges that…