What it means is that they will stop renting to anybody.
If this happens, I hope it is immediately stayed by a court. It’s a blatant violation of freedom of religion.
Heyyyyyy! I have an idea!
Go to Hell and Burn!
Nothing like a lame ordinance in a vain attempt to undermine the 1st amendment.
It will never pass a challenge.
In my hometown the Baptist Church is made of white brick. The church built a building across the street and matched the brick. It is rented out to the general public. One day a black woman called and wanted to use the building. She was told the fee and the woman said they couldn’t charge her a fee because it is a government building. When asked why she thought it was a government building she said “Because all buildings made of white brick are government buildings.”
I have a feeling before too long the church will have to start allowing certain people to use it for free.
Separation of church and government works both ways. If you decide to step on my toes, all bets are off.
Whatever happened to private property rights? If I have a building I should be able to rent it to whomever I please. A church is privately owned.
If not then why can the NAACP boot Alan West and still maintain it’s tax free status?
Hutch? Really? WTF?
I guess I need to grab a paper the next time I’m in the convenience store.
I think that new city elections are due, immediately.
Try the “recall” process against these leftist aholes.
Remember, Sebelius once ran Kansas, right into the leftist cesspool and now she’s doing it to the country.
It is time that the taxpayers of Hutchinson took control of their city and cleaned house with Ex-Lax. Then abolish the Human Rights Commission/COuncil/Outhouse.
As far as religious freedom being protected at this level, check out the following FR thread and read a couple of paragraphs from the bottom of butterdezillion’s posting about Romney:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2875441/posts
(I know you’re no Newt fan, but try to ignore that and check out the freedom of religion points of the post :-)
Scary stuff.
Any business or organization can voluntarily pretend "marry" publicly two people of the same sex, and they're perfectly free to do so, and gay couples can behave as they please. By the same token, if churches and businesses and organizations and communities opt to turn away any dealings with openly homosexual "customers," that's their right, too. Gay "rights" seek to deny that right, and anti-discrimination laws have gone a long way to fomenting footing for an immoral lifestyle that's now infecting teens.
Limited government conservative philosophy is one that's a friend to morality -- the biggest opponent to Americans' living morally IS the government!
What about the mosque up the street?
Reductio ad absurdum: Definition:a form of argument in which a proposition is disproven by following its implications logically to an absurd consequence.
Example:
A Hutchinson Church probibits marriage as being one other than between a man and a woman.
A proposed descrimination ordinance would prohibit all churches in Hutchinson, Kan. from renting out their facilities for gay wedding.
Therefore, churches in Hutchinson Kansas are free to practice their religion.
Law hasn't been passed yet, only proposed. Time for revolution.. when and if it passes. Or Obama implements the policy by executive order, stating, "We Can't Wait" or some other happy horse pucky, like he did when the EPA declared CO2 to be a pollutant. (Nobody asked the trees and other green plants). Or when he mandated that Churches and religious institutions such as hospitals run by religious orders, would have to pay for birth control if they offered health insurance to their employees.
I said this would happen if the right to “marriage” was given to them. Not many agreed with me.
This is happening in Kansas? I’d expect it to be somewhere in California.
As a Christian I could NOT perform /nor allow such blasphemy be allowed desecrate Sacred Ground. If Hutchinson KS chooses to REPROBATE and make all there be as Sodom or like unto Gomorrah it is high time for the righteous to hear the prophet and “Come out of her My people!” God knows how to provide salvation to the righteous but Hutchinson KS ought consider what will happen when God cannot find even ten righteous men in that wicked City?
That’s easy enough to deal with... Church Facilities may only be rented to active members in good standing.
Most rentals are to civic organizations that at least 1 member of the churhc is part of anyway... so problem solved, heretics stifled,
That and you sue the city for violation of the freedom of association and freedom of religion clauses for damages in the meantime.