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Churchgoers urging higher minimum wage march into Logan Square McDonald's
Chicago Tribune ^ | May 29, 2015 | By Meredith Rodriguez

Posted on 03/30/2015 6:04:28 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

In commemoration of Palm Sunday, dozens of churchgoers marched into a Logan Square McDonald's singing, chanting and demanding a $15 minimum wage for the workers behind the counter.

About 80 congregants had gathered at the Logan Square Monument moments earlier to receive communion and to use the example of Jesus riding into Jerusalem a week before Easter to demand what they called a living wage for all low-wage workers.

"Jesus was participating in street theater on Palm Sunday. On that day he was riding in on that donkey. He was saying business as usual will not continue here," said Marilyn Pagan-Banks of San Lucas United Church of Christ in Humboldt Park, after she and several other clergy tried unsuccessfully to hand a letter to a McDonald's manager.

The event was organized by Arise Chicago and several churches in the Logan Square Ecumenical Alliance as part the "Fast for $15" program, in which congregants and community members were asked to abstain from fast-food restaurants during Lent.

The gathering was in support of the Fight for $15 campaign, which started in New York more than two years ago and has since filed hundreds of claims against McDonald's.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: economics101; hijackjesus; minimumwage; religion; socialism
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Demanding 10 dollar Big Macs


21 posted on 03/30/2015 6:38:41 AM PDT by Sybeck1 (Vote Ross in MS01)
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To: fatnotlazy

Yes...first thing I noticed was the signs. With one in Spanish. Church of the union....


22 posted on 03/30/2015 6:41:25 AM PDT by goodnesswins (I think we've reached PEAK TYRANNY now.....)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“San Lucas United Church of Christ “

Probably opposed to churches that get involved in politics.


23 posted on 03/30/2015 6:42:14 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: goodnesswins

And look at all the rain ponchos too....printed similarly


24 posted on 03/30/2015 6:43:27 AM PDT by goodnesswins (I think we've reached PEAK TYRANNY now.....)
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To: YourAdHere

It is sad and ironic how these communist losers call themselves religious. If you are worth more, then get a better damn job, or develop more valuable skills.


25 posted on 03/30/2015 6:43:49 AM PDT by ohioman
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That’s political speech and that should cause them to lose their non-profit status.


26 posted on 03/30/2015 6:52:01 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

McDonald’s has enough financial problems of its own. Why is it that protestors seem to flock to fast food restaurants?


27 posted on 03/30/2015 6:53:05 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I SEE me some RACESSism in that gang!!




28 posted on 03/30/2015 6:53:49 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: fatnotlazy

check out the ponchos also....that many people have a red or yellow poncho with wording??


29 posted on 03/30/2015 6:59:13 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Then let those losers pay them, I will not eat out any more (not that I eat that Mc-crap anyway).


30 posted on 03/30/2015 7:11:19 AM PDT by nomad
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I want to know who paid for all the matching rain coats...


31 posted on 03/30/2015 7:39:08 AM PDT by GOPJ (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist. - Freeper RipSawyer)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
They need to read Matthew 20, where the workers agree to work all day in a vineyard for a penny. When the workers later complain about getting only a penny for working all day when other workers who worked only an hour also get a penny, the landowner defends his action as just.

So to the extent that Jesus expressed an opinion on this issue, it is that a penny a day is the right minimum wage.

(Of course this is the King James translation--the Greek text has "denarius" which would be worth more than a penny in today's money.)

32 posted on 03/30/2015 8:35:03 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: AppyPappy

The United Church of Christ is a weekly Progressive rally called church.


33 posted on 03/30/2015 9:24:22 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Did they also demand to pay $10 for a $5 meal? Didn’t think so.


34 posted on 03/30/2015 9:42:19 AM PDT by Pecos (What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.)
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To: SaraJohnson; flaglady47
During the course of my career I met quite a number of members of this leftist, World Council of Churches, social justice-type "church".

Well educated, upper-middle class, suburban-type folks....and each and every one of them slightly weird or "off" when it came to discussing political and religious issues of the day.

"Progressive" Democrat voters all....and I'll go no further. They made me uneasy....and I never pursued any acquaintanceship with any of them.

A study by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research found that over half of the UCC's memberships believe that the Bible is "not the highest authority" in the Christian religious world.

'Nuff said.

Leni

35 posted on 03/30/2015 9:49:56 AM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: Verginius Rufus

I’m pretty sure the participants protesting from the church could not find Matthew 20 in the Bible if their soul depended on it...

They probably know the union rules by the letter...


36 posted on 03/30/2015 10:17:07 AM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

-—”Jesus was participating in street theater on Palm Sunday.-—

I wonder if they understand how offensive that is... 


37 posted on 03/30/2015 10:19:35 AM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Marilyn Pagan Banks

38 posted on 03/30/2015 10:20:52 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Fast food?.. Bah, HUMBUG!


39 posted on 03/30/2015 10:22:18 AM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: Popman
Jesus was riding on a little donkey. In Spanish that is burrito. So they should have been protesting at Taco Bell.
40 posted on 03/30/2015 11:29:44 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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