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Banished! City forbids Bible studies in homes.
Worldnet Daily ^ | 3/13/10 | Bob Unruh

Posted on 03/13/2010 5:21:54 AM PST by stars & stripes forever

The city of Gilbert, Ariz., has ordered a group of seven adults to stop gathering for Bible studies in a private home because such meetings are forbidden by the city's zoning codes. The issue was brought to a head when city officials wrote a letter to a pastor and his wife informing them they had 10 days to quit having the meetings in their private home. . .

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: bible; constitution; donttreadonme; freedom; lping; moralabsloutes; noreliousfreedom; pray; prayer; rapeofliberty; religiousfreedome; unconstitutional; unlawfulruling; wakeupamerica
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1 posted on 03/13/2010 5:21:55 AM PST by stars & stripes forever
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To: stars & stripes forever

Never hold up in court.


2 posted on 03/13/2010 5:22:54 AM PST by servantboy777
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To: stars & stripes forever

Zoning is not “law”...


3 posted on 03/13/2010 5:23:50 AM PST by Sacajaweau (What)
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To: stars & stripes forever

DUMB town....


4 posted on 03/13/2010 5:24:42 AM PST by Sacajaweau (What)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Can these tyrants be removed from power?


5 posted on 03/13/2010 5:24:52 AM PST by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: stars & stripes forever
My Bibles?

MOLON LABE!

6 posted on 03/13/2010 5:25:26 AM PST by PalmettoMason (An armed man will kill an unarmed man with monotonous regularity.)
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To: pnh102

It’s time Christians took their place in local government.


7 posted on 03/13/2010 5:26:58 AM PST by stars & stripes forever ( Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Those city officials should be run out of town.


8 posted on 03/13/2010 5:27:28 AM PST by FES0844
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To: stars & stripes forever

Does this mean that druggie satanists can’t hold meeting about skinning black cats and such?


9 posted on 03/13/2010 5:27:33 AM PST by dennisw (It all comes 'round again --Fairport)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Sorry, this “law” is a direct violation of the 1st amendment, which is man’s law that coincides with God’s. This one should be tossed in a heartbeat.


10 posted on 03/13/2010 5:27:35 AM PST by Desdemona
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To: stars & stripes forever

It seems these stories pop up every day, with greater and greater frequency... how much longer is it going to take for people to finally say “enough”?


11 posted on 03/13/2010 5:27:54 AM PST by Common Sense 101
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To: pnh102
Can these tyrants be removed from power?

Those city officials should be run out of town.

BUMP! BUMP!

12 posted on 03/13/2010 5:29:16 AM PST by PGalt
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To: stars & stripes forever

Had they been Muslims or Atheists...crickets...


13 posted on 03/13/2010 5:29:39 AM PST by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
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To: stars & stripes forever

There will always be little people in positions of power who will TRY anything. Whether they have the right to do it doesn’t matter—they know that all that need happen is that no one challenge them.


14 posted on 03/13/2010 5:30:24 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Counting down to departure)
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Those city officials should be run out of town.

OOPS. Forgot to include you. Worth repeating, anyway.

15 posted on 03/13/2010 5:30:25 AM PST by PGalt
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To: stars & stripes forever

FINE THE OFFICIALS FOR UNCONSTITUTIONAL OUTRAGEOUSNESS.

CLUELESSNESS STRIKES AGAIN.

I guess the vocabulary in the Constitution is above some folks IQ levels.


16 posted on 03/13/2010 5:30:25 AM PST by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: stars & stripes forever

What??!!!

I agree with the poster who said it would never hold up in court.


17 posted on 03/13/2010 5:30:31 AM PST by sneakers
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To: stars & stripes forever

Since drinking parties and poker games that attract the same size of group are allowed, just keep some beer bottles and decks of cards around the house for the members to grab as props if the police come a knocking to enforce this.


18 posted on 03/13/2010 5:30:54 AM PST by I_Like_Spam
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To: stars & stripes forever

ok ... on the surface this seems outrageous... However.. would you REALLY want your neighbor running a church or anything else very regular out of his house filling up the street with cars ect?


19 posted on 03/13/2010 5:31:17 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama = Epic Fail)
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The town interprets its law so that "churches within its borders cannot have any home meetings of any size, including Bible studies, three-person church leadership meetings and potluck dinners," ADF said.

So let me get this straight if a group of people are gathering to share a dinner and it is for a religious reason, it is illegal.

Wonder if they ever heard of Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.

20 posted on 03/13/2010 5:32:42 AM PST by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free. Free Republic.com baby.)
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