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Crackdown on Bible study in San Diego

By: wayneinnh (Diary)  |  May 29th, 2009 at 06:53 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Cross posted from The Fallen World.

I came across this yesterday. It seems that a couple in San Diego have been entertaining a bible study with about 10 – 15 people every week. Seems harmless, right? Not so fast. The couple have been threatened with escalating fines if they continue their studies. Particularly disturbing is the line of questioning reportedly carried out by a county official. “The county asked, ‘Do you have a regular meeting in your home?’ She said, ‘Yes.’ ‘Do you say amen?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Do you pray?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Do you say praise the Lord?’ ‘Yes.’”

Is this the United States? As far as I know, we still have a Constitution. However, beyond the first amendment issues here what does this say about our society? We now have people of faith threatened with the power of the state coming down on them for the unspeakable of act of worship and study of God’s word.

The pastor, his family, as well as the county officials involved are all in need of prayer.

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  • mailloux

    Awareness of this should be raised and I thank you for posting it.

    What country is this anyway? You’d think an incident like this would cause righteous anger on a national scale. It strikes me as unconstitutional to the extreme . . . yet it’s barely a blip in the news cycle.

    Thanks again for bringing this to our attention.

    Take Care, mailloux

    • DONTREADONME

      this is utterly dispicable if the homeowners are found to be telling the truth.

      I hope heads role for this, once again if the allegations are found to be true.

  • Finrod

    Have you taken an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States?

    Do you know the First Amendment to the Constitution?

    Can you quote the part of it about religion?

    Do you understand that interfering with the free exercise of religion violates your oath to uphold the Constitution?

    • wayneinnh

      Do you think it was a coincidence that freedom of religion is the FIRST item in the bill of rights?

    • http://andrightlyso.com/ civil_truth

      …where all churches (and other religious groups) have to apply for and receive government approval to operate.

      Nor did I didn’t realized that San Deigo County had nullified the First Amendment.

      Now I can understand zoning permits for religious structures, where we may have issues of noise and parking, for instance where neighbors should have some voice.

      However, this is far different than informal meeting to freely exercise religion. For a county to require ransom to do is flabbergasting.

      I trust that the religious freedom advocate groups will be lining up to take on this case pro bono,