Florida Family Faces Fines For Holding Bible Study (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, September 18, 2012, 8:36 AM
It’s an Obama world…
A Florida family is facing fines for inviting friends and family over for prayer and Bible study.
Todd Starnes reported:
A Florida family is facing fines for hosting a weekly Bible study in their home – an act that city officials argue violates zoning codes.
Shane and Marlen Roessiger, of Venice, Fla. are facing a $250 per day fine for hosting Friday night prayer and Bible study gatherings that are attended by as many as 10 people.
“It is difficult to understand how it is illegal to have a prayer meeting on Friday night with a half dozen people but it is alright if I invited the same group on Monday evening to watch Monday night Football,” Roessiger said.
The Roessigers are also facing a fine for putting a small sign in their front yard that reads: “Need Prayer (941) 484-4915.”
“It’s a weekly Bible study,” said Brad Dacus, president of the Pacific Justice Institute. “It’s the same kind of Bible study that occurs in households across America.”
The Pacific Justice Institute is representing the Roessigers as they fight back against the city’s attacks. Dacus said they are hearing of a number of assaults on home Bible studies across the nation.
“They are having a specific problem with this family solely because they are having family and friends over to read the bible and pray,” Dacus told Fox News. “That may be fine in some tyrannical parts of the world. That is not okay in the United States of America.”
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tommy mc donnell commented:
have a koran study instead. liberal america is dowm with that.
Rose commented:
http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111mlk.html
We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was “illegal.” It was “illegal” to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler’s Germany. Even so, I am sure that, had I lived in Germany at the time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers. If today I lived in a Communist country where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I would openly advocate disobeying that country’s anti-religious laws.
- Martin Luther King, Jr., April 1963, Letter From a Birmingham Jail
Mahdi Al-Dajjal commented:
Talk amongst yourselves. I’ll give you the topic. The Dem Party is godless.
Adirondack Patriot commented:
If they were wearing bomb vests and taking violent offense at any perceived insult to Muhammed (the most emotionally fragile and low self-esteem prophet in the history of the world), then everything would have been fine.
Mekan commented:
Maybe the White House will step in and order the city to stand down like they did for Occupy….good luck with that.
It is not that liberals are godless necessarily. They worship many gods with government being their most powerful.
Granny commented:
I’ve been following this for a while now, but this is the first time I’ve seen this video. I do wish that whoever had put it together had not included the particular sound track that they did as I found it horrendously distracting.
KPD commented:
My neighbor used to hold these. It was a complete disaster for everyone else. Traffic, cars parked everywhere all in a residential quiet neighborhood.
There is a reason that zoning laws rank churches with auto body shops and welding shops. They are a real nuisance.
Whistleblower commented:
U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald named as source of leak.
http://illinoispaytoplay.com/2012/09/14/u-s-attorney-patrick-fitzgerald-named-as-source-of-leak/
“Golden,” the whitewashing of a Department of Justice crime spree
http://illinoispaytoplay.com/2012/09/16/golden-the-whitewashing-of-a-department-of-justice-crime-spree/
Finncrisp commented:
If it was MOSLEMS getting together, I am sure it would be OK. What is it that makes knee jerk persecution of Christianity acceptable?
Suggest these “enlightened” city leaders resign in disgrace.
Finncrisp commented:
#9 you have to be kidding. No different than a super bowl party, graduation open houses, a funeral wake. What is it about peole living their lives that offends you?
Alec Rawls commented:
The right to assemble is in the Constitution. With all the phony “rights” championed by the left, they don’t even respect the few that are actually enumerated in the Constitution.
paul52 commented:
#9…. ever hear of the 1st Amendment? Mentions Freedom of Assembly. Yeah, 10 people can create a real traffic problem. Moron.
Jeannie commented:
Old news. 2 1/2 years ago a San Diego family was majorly fined and had to shut down their bible studies…no license to meet…even though down the streets raucous and drunken parties with far more people were held with no incident.
Transparency…yep, I’d say it’s pretty clear.
stonedome commented:
just put “muslims welcome” on the sign and they’ll leave you alone…
stonedome commented:
#9
wow, rantings of a tiny minded atheist? this is not a business, it is a religious social group…
Jeannie commented:
#9 and his ilk have been getting away with this vile interpretation of our civic laws. I just don’t see the youngest generation falling for the same PC crap we all did.
If they’d been given a little history they could learn that governnments have toppled over and over after thinking they’ve wiped out Judeo/Christianity,yet WE always come back.
The disciples had ZERO in their pockets, no plan of action and half were illiterate.
A bright person would realize that the odds of such an odd bunch launching a religion that would just grow with the centuries are astronomical. They think it was a cult. Some cult, absolutely NO secrecy and members coming from the greatest melting pot in history.
But dems…you can’t fix stupid.
Jeannie commented:
#16 – truer words…
Patty commented:
What a nation, Why is this happening? I BLAME OBAMA! Vote Romney/Ryan.
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