Posted on 03/05/2015 8:09:15 PM PST by massmike
A Florida city’s code-enforcement division, which was subject in 2013 to a scathing audit for falsifying inspections, employing unqualified inspectors and failing to clean up nuisance properties, has now decided to go after churches.
City-code enforcement officer, Gerard A. Coscia – wearing a hoodie – was sent to the Common Ground Church on Feb. 9 to clandestinely film the worship service, reported the Examiner.
The following Sunday, Coscia returned to the church, which meets in the Coffee Grounds Coffee Bar, handed his business card to pastor Mike Olive and told him, “This Sunday is your last Sunday.”
“I inspected the property and found the following violations: Business-rental property found without a current City of Lake Worth business license, specifically to operate as a church, or a house of worship,” Coscia wrote in his case narrative, according to the Lake Worth Tribune.
But Common Grounds Coffee Bar does have a business license, Olive told the Tribune. He should know – he owns the business. And the site is not a church – it’s a coffee shop that leases space to a church every Sunday morning in the same manner other city restaurants and businesses rent their back rooms to neighborhood groups for their meetings.
Olive told the Tribune he had heard that City Commissioner Andy Amoroso, who owns a newsstand and gay-pornography shop in Lake Worth, was telling people Olive and his church were “anti-gay,” a charge Olive denied and attempted to address personally with Amoroso.
Olive said Amoroso told him, “You better not have a church there. That better not be a church,” referring to the coffee bar.
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This is why homosexuality needs to be outlawed again and these perverts forced back into the closet. They abuse everything they touch. People. Power. They just use whatever station they’re at to terrorize others and screw the law, they think they are untouchable and unanswerable to regular citizens.
The Gaystapo strikes again.
An amorous thigh is not anything you want running Lake Worth, is it?
If homosexuality is outlawed, will outlaws be homosexuals?
Sounds like a personal vendetta...
I certainly hope Lake Worth plans on closing down every business that rents space for an event....or they possibly are walking into a buzz saw of a lawsuit...
Good catch!
Get BEHIND thee, Satan. In Jesus MIGHTY Name.
I recently read about what I thought at the time was a rather outlandish theory that the NAZI party was the instrument of a homosexual movement in Germany. These days, I am not so sure it was really all that outlandish..
I view 'code enforcement' as only one notch below the child nazis of the CPS in their invasive petty tyranny.
Bringing petty tyranny to those without a HOA...
Hitler and his Socialist Labor gang were butch homosexuals——that word was invented in Germany BTW. If the Pink Swastika site is stll up it is worth a perusal.
Ah, more money!
only if they’re sodomites.
Sounds like it’s time to launch a nice, lucrative lawsuit against that city. Businesses rent their space out to churches all the time. If Satan’s lot is going to try persecuting Christians need to return fire in spades.
In my area the churches normally rent out the space (to AA groups and such); anyone who has had someone set up a “church” in their home might appreciate what the city is doing. They may be trying to prevent a mass of parking issues in an area that wasn’t zoned/approved for it.
Four sentences in before the reader gets an idea of which Florida city.
Crap writing.
will outlaws be homosexuals?...Naww, just queer.
"The pink triangle was one of the Nazi concentration camp badges, used to identify male prisoners who were sent there because of their homosexuality. The pink triangle was also used to identify sexual offenders including rapists, paedophiles and zoophiles." (wikipedia)
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