King George is now in charge of City of Laurel, Maryland!

[Kenny]

Hardly. I found a superior source to yours, yet still a Christian group and they did not appear to agree with you. All you could find to support your claims were extremely biased sources.

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Except two people have read your site and we didn't arrive to that conclussion.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Except two people have read your site and we didn't arrive to that conclussion.

Yes, and they had poor reading skills, one much worse that the other since their errors were explained to them and at least one appeared to understand. The other has not done so well.

 

[Shad]

Unless I read it incorrectly, I believe that is what they tried to do as a for-profit business but, apparently, their church service when the shop was closed on Sunday morning was too much for the city. Not sure how much traffic there is on a Sunday morning, I think most businesses open late on a Sunday morning just because most people are recovering from a long Saturday night.

On Sunday the smaller shops around here open late if at all. The Malls do not open until noon. Only the corporate giants run early to late hours. No city council freaking out about it here.

 

[Shad]

Edit: So haven't come across anything showing this is an anti-gay organization. Didn't see anything in the city council's response to indicate this either. The law does seem to target this group in a specific way. Just thinking there has to be more than anti-religion bias behind it.

The ADF has been involved in a number of cases over marriage, decriminalization, etc. I do not believe in those views points but see it as a rationale for the government to give them a tough time.

 

[Shad]

Not sure where you were going with this. What does this have to do with freedom of starting a church? Are we creating a different subject to supress the issue?

No I think it is a rationale people like to create so they can discriminated against people because they hold unpopular views.

 

[Subduction Zone]

The article that I linked stated that the original agreement was to allow the coffee shop providing no assemblies were held there. The Laurel church got in trouble when they violated that agreement.

 

[leibowde84]

Unless I read it incorrectly, I believe that is what they tried to do as a for-profit business but, apparently, their church service when the shop was closed on Sunday morning was too much for the city. Not sure how much traffic there is on a Sunday morning, I think most businesses open late on a Sunday morning just because most people are recovering from a long Saturday night.

No, stores open at the usual time on Sundays in Laurel. I used to work up there. But, all in all, I don't think a church is the best use of commercial space in Laurel. They are trying to get more revenue building businesses. Can't argue that it is a reasonable goal.