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Why do people think that their religious activities make them exempt from obtaining proper zoning and permitting? If this man is going to have 40 people in a building constructed just for this purpose, you'd think that he would want to attend to their physical safety as well as their souls.
"‘They’re cracking down on religious activities and religious use,’ Michael Salman told Fox News Radio. ‘They’re attacking what I as a Christian do in the privacy of my home.’"
"However, Miss Hill, the chief assistant city prosecutor, said Salman has ‘mischaracterized the facts’ of the permit. She said that he was given a permit to convert a garage into a game room, not a church or anything else for that matter. On June 11, 2009, Salman was charged with having no emergency exit signs over the doors, no handicaps parking spaces or handicap ramps."
Why do people think that their religious activities make them exempt from obtaining proper zoning and permitting? If this man is going to have 40 people in a building constructed just for this purpose, you'd think that he would want to attend to their physical safety as well as their souls.
"‘They’re cracking down on religious activities and religious use,’ Michael Salman told Fox News Radio. ‘They’re attacking what I as a Christian do in the privacy of my home.’"
"However, Miss Hill, the chief assistant city prosecutor, said Salman has ‘mischaracterized the facts’ of the permit. She said that he was given a permit to convert a garage into a game room, not a church or anything else for that matter. On June 11, 2009, Salman was charged with having no emergency exit signs over the doors, no handicaps parking spaces or handicap ramps."
i agree with you on this helen(shocker i know, so dont have a heart attack ). this guy is actually running a church out of his home, illegally.
Oh??? I don't know about that. After all, it is his own home, and what he is doing is in the privacy of his on home. This is none of the city's concern. If he put up a sign advertising his so called 'church', in a residential neighborhood, then maybe the neighbors and city might have reason to object. There was nothing in the news that said it was a church or that he put up a sign in front of his home saying it was a church. My pastor has Bible study in his home. We gather at 6:00 PM on Thursday night, socialize a little bit with a glass of wine, have supper, sing a few songs then study the Bible. There is about 12 of us, but we could have fourty, it's nobody's business how many we have. To reach his house we have to park on the street, there is no emergency exit signs and there is no special entrances provisions for the disabled. For all the neighbor's and and cities business is concerned, it's just a weekly social event.
It is a sad day in America when our freedom of assembly and freedom to practice religion as guaranteed by the First Amendment - and paid for by blood - are being denied and those who assemble and worship are being charged with "crimes" and possibly being thrown in jail.
Remember - this is what happens when you elect godless, intolerant, anti-Constitution Democrats - they will try to tear our foundations down brick by brick.
Let's pray for this man and his family - vote for religious freedom and protection of the Constitution in Novemember - and hope that if nothing else - this case goes to the Supreme Court now that he is found "guilty".
We are becoming like North Korea a little more everyday.
I'm going to open a bar in my house without any permits or license, and stick a cross in the middle. That way if the city shuts it down I can cry persecution.
I'm going to open a bar in my house without any permits or license, and stick a cross in the middle. That way if the city shuts it down I can cry persecution.
Will you be giving the liquor away for free?
Remember - this man was not selling anything. He was holding a bible study.
Yup , If it was a beer party they would have looked the other way.. it was a game room , right?
It's not single event but multiple events, that's the difference.
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