A violation of the First Amendment if there ever was one.
Let’s say twice a week, 20-50 bikers were gathering for a club meeting at some guy’s house in your neighborhood.
Is it a violation of the 1st Amendment to require the biker group to obtain a special permit to have their meetings in a residential area?
If this happened to be Muslims gathering each week in those numbers I think comments here might be different.
I agree with others who say this has gone beyond a simple, small (read that few to say 8-10) people and is nearly a business and should be functioning as such.
Frankly on the scale indicated I wouldn’t care for it either and ESPECIALLY if they just happened to be from the ROP which could very well happen nowadays.
They should have wrapped their bibles with a cover making them look like a Koran and gone into the house wearing burqas and filthy night shirts.
No irony whatsoever that the town is named San Juan Capistrano. None.
But, the headline is misleading. The fine is more likely for the Sunday service than the Wednesday evening bible study.
There is something amiss with this code. The code as stated doesn’t give ‘cause’ for these infractions as to detriment, harm or whatever as to any extent and why not. My first question would be ‘What group or persons would pass such a worded law?. There does seem to be some kind of bias or intention.
Would Kalifornia require a permit of muslims? Would they require a permit of cults like Heaven’s Gate or Jim Jones? Would they require a permit of somebody like Warren Jeffs who rapes 12 year old girls in the name of religion? Of course not! The weirder and sicker the “religion” the more it is protected speech in Kalifornia. Only Christians can be persecuted in a place like Kalifornia.