City of Houston Tries to Steal Decades-Old Churches—to give land to a-[trunc] (Protestant Caucus)

Aquilla Report ^ | August 10, 2015 | Liberty Institute

[EvilCapitalist]

This doesn’t surprise me when I think of who the mayor of Houston is.

[Gamecock]

I wonder what Houston's mayor involvement is.

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[Gamecock]

See #3

[dfwgator]

“Land, see ‘snatch’”

[Sacajaweau]

We just had an Historic church burn down. It had been condemned. The Preservationists refused to give in on knocking it down.

It cost a fireman his life.

[rstrahan]

Texas enacted a law to stop this sort of stuff. We will see how it plays out.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Thank you, Kelo v. New London

[metmom]

Our government run amok.

[chajin]

Should the government be able to seize a church’s property and hand it over to some other business for raw economic gain and extra tax revenue?

Henry VIII did it. Family story is that the ancestors got some swamp land in Ely for free that had been expropriated from the Catholic Church, though it obviously didn't help the family much, since a few generations later at least one of the descendants emigrated to VA as an indentured servant in 1636.

[left that other site]

#BLACK CHURCHES MATTER!!!!

I can tell from the Church Names that these historic churches are African-American Denominations. We Christians of the Paler Persuasion should not forget our Brothers and Sisters in Christ who attend these churches.

BTW, where are the Black "Leaders"?

[GeronL]

The Supreme Court (and Trump) said this was okay, but I think state law says different.

[wildbill]

Houston must be relying on the landmark SCt case of Kelso Vs. City of New London which allowed government to take property and give it to private developer.

Are you Trumpster surprised to know that Donald Trump approved of this case and policy, no doubt because big real estate developers with ‘ins’ to government via “donations” receive favors back?

I believe, however, that Texas changed its eminent domain law to prevent this sort of crony capitalism favoritism by government.

[deport]

This has been an ongoing action for sometime now as the city tries to secure the
properties in the entire block for a library and housing.

Properties in question:

Another thread from a couple days ago.

Houston trying to seize churches through eminent domain

[rhoda_penmark]

Way back when I was taught to be a Christian, the Church was the people, and the building was only a building.