Is there more to this story? If not, I don’t get it.
Me either. I kept waiting to read about noise complaints or parking issues...but nothing.
When two of my elderly relatives went to live in Methodist homes for the aged, the homes started having financial trouble (due to the UMC's leftward drift; but that's another story), and so they decided to allow non-Methodists and even non-Christians to live there. There was a residents' council, which was immediately taken over by a non-Christian. Predictably, the first thing to go was the grace before meals and then, the numerous artworks depicting Jesus. At one of the homes, the two women hired to replace the outgoing director and his assistant were two cross-dressing lesbians. My relatives in their late 90s did not want to have to leave these homes that had been used by family members for three generations, so the rest of us had to suffer watching this erosion take place, and rapidly.
My guess is that one or two non-Christians, or CINOs, have lodged complaints about the Bible study, and the answer seems always to shut down the Christians rather than defend the religious liberty that was established in this land by Christians.
Crowding? Treating an apartment as if it were a church could cause trouble.
I missed that they were held in the community room. Different issues. They are accused of using it to run a business. As such, the complaint would seem to rise or fall on whether they collect offerings I excess of any occupancy chargese, or whether others have reasonable opportunity to use the room.
Even so, why evict, rather than just deny access?