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Homeowner Jailed for Hosting Bible Study

Hatuey said:
His counterpoint to what? Obama doesn't have weekly Bible meetings with 40 people at his house and the NAACP has meetings at arenas designated as such. And please don't start comparing campaign stops to this. You'll look hyperbolic at best and ridiculous at worst.
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Substitute Obama for black people holding black history month meetings...
 
On my computer screen, you all look the same color to me.
 
Bodhisattva said:
Substitute Obama for black people holding black history month meetings...
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And we're all off to the cross burning..... Oy vey!

There goes the neighborhood. I give it 2 pages before it lands in the basement.

Party poopers.
 
Bodhisattva said:
Substitute Obama for black people holding black history month meetings...
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I would be pissed off, as a neighbor, and the city would still need to see to code compliance. But black history meetings people are reasonable, aren't seeking to aggrandize themselves into wannabe martyrs... so you won't hear of such a stupid stunt by such a group.
 
Captain America said:
And we're all off to the cross burning..... Oy vey!

There goes the neighborhood. I give it 2 pages before it lands in the basement.

Party poopers.
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I do what I can...
 
Dezaad said:
I would be pissed off, as a neighbor, and the city would still need to see to code compliance. But black history meetings people are reasonable, aren't seeking to aggrandize themselves into wannabe martyrs... so you won't hear of such a stupid stunt by such a group.
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It is more about the number of people violating codes than what they are doing at the meeting...
 
Dezaad said:
I would be pissed off, as a neighbor, and the city would still need to see to code compliance. But black history meetings people are reasonable, aren't seeking to aggrandize themselves into wannabe martyrs... so you won't hear of such a stupid stunt by such a group.
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You never heard of Quanell X, have you?
 
Bodhisattva said:
Substitute Obama for black people holding black history month meetings...
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What black history month meetings? Dude - you're usually pretty good at comparisons but this is ridiculous. This was a guy trying to have a church at his house and violating city ordinances in doing so. That's it. It's clear cut. You don't need to make hyperbolic comparisons to get your point across. If he had complied with laws regarding such regularly held events (which I can assume include safety codes, noise laws, etc.) I'm sure the city would have let him have his way. However he didn't. In fact - he had 67 such violations.
 
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Lokiate said:
You never heard of Quanell X, have you?
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No, I hadn't, but he is the perfect person to compare this church group to ... Both seem to like the hyperbolic depiction of themselves as victims. Good choice. Hurts rather than helps the case of the persecuted pastor.
 
Sounds like a publicity stunt to me.
 
Dezaad said:
No, I hadn't, but he is the perfect person to compare this church group to ... Both seem to like the hyperbolic depiction of themselves as victims. Good choice. Hurts rather than helps the case of the persecuted pastor.
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I'm just saying every group has their douchebags.
 
Aberration said:
Only data I need is that people were assembling to exercise speaking on their religion. No other data required.
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The right to free speech does not mean you can have a couple dozen cars or more parked around the neighborhood for some event at your house. If all these guys walked, took a cab, carpooled, kept the noise,traffic and parked cars down to a minimum I do not think that homeowner would be in trouble. My right to keep and bear arms does not entitle me to shoot up the neighborhood, shoot a gun at 3AM, or try to intimidate people by pointing my weapon at them.
 
jamesrage said:
The right to free speech does not mean you can have a couple dozen cars or more parked around the neighborhood for some event at your house. If all these guys walked, took a cab, carpooled, kept the noise,traffic and parked cars down to a minimum I do not think that homeowner would be in trouble. My right to keep and bear arms does not entitle me to shoot up the neighborhood, shoot a gun at 3AM, or try to intimidate people by pointing my weapon at them.
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Once again, you have proven yourself to be one of my favorite posters here at Debate Politics, to read.

You should sell your sperm to stupid women. The median IQ would jump 20 points.
 
Recipe for thread success here at DP

50 cups Christianity
1 dash Fox News
19 quarts "slightly liberal" liberals

simmer for several years

stir with 67 oz big stick named "righteous code violations"

yield: 1 serving of ridiculous hysteria
 
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Captain America said:
Once again, you have proven yourself to be one of my favorite posters here at Debate Politics, to read.

You should sell your sperm to stupid women. The median IQ would jump 20 points.
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He's just said he wouldn't point his weapon at anyone. ;)
 
Captain America said:
67 code violations. Does it really matter? We are a nation of laws. Religious freedom does not trump the law of the land regardless if the offenders believe they answer to a higher power.

67, count 'em, 67 violations. Really?!?!?
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Actually, yes, religious freedom does often trump "the law of the land"... when said "law of the land" is ill-conceived and incorrectly passed. Many Supreme Court decisions over time have confirmed this.
 
radcen said:
Actually, yes, religious freedom does often trump "the law of the land"... when said "law of the land" is ill-conceived and incorrectly passed. Many Supreme Court decisions over time have confirmed this.
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Well then. What say we put us up a mosque, and have 50 or so Islamists start having prayer meetings, 5 times a day, blast all that crazy sounding arab yodel through those funny looking bullhorns, next door to you then. LOL!

I hear ya though. That's right.
 
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Captain America said:
Well then. What say we put us up a mosque, and have 50 or so Islamists start having prayer meetings, 5 times a day, blast all that crazy sounding arab yodel through those funny looking bullhorns, next door to you then. LOL!

I hear ya though. That's right.
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LOLOL.. I love that Arab yodel as much as I love church bells.
 
radcen said:
Actually, yes, religious freedom does often trump "the law of the land"... when said "law of the land" is ill-conceived and incorrectly passed. Many Supreme Court decisions over time have confirmed this.
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Are you suggesting that in this case the code violations were ill-concieved and incorrectly passed or are you talking in a more general sense?
 
apdst said:
All the folks making this argument would be nuttin' up if this had been a NAACP meeting, or an Obama campaign meeting.
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Is it still possible to get 50 people out to see the one term Marxist flexible president Barrack Hussein Obama? What do we have at this point, about another 100 or so days until this reign of (t)error is over?
 
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