Property rights are just as important as freedom of speech-they go together. What if I put a adult book store right next to your house or the house of your grandkids?
I am very strong on property rights because I grew up in farm country with zero zoning laws and saw first hand how people do stuff to their property that is an eyesore/hurts other neighbor's property values. A guy right across from my dad's farm put in a semi truck repair garage on his property. Now there is 60-60 semi truck junkers/wrecks and other assorted junk in 5 foot high weeds out in the field my parents have to look at each day. Not a thing they can do about it.
What Salman did was abuse his right as a property owner and was inconsiderate of his neighbors. Millions of people are having Bible meetings in their homes across the country just fine. When 60+ of his neighbors signed a petition against him that is telling. Are you saying they are all anti God Atheist?
What if members of my church showed up outside your bookstore photographing the customers, posting their faces, and informing their families?
You'd go to the police? Oh you libertarian you! What happened to my free speech rights? This is where we are ruled by an illegitimate power, and you don't even see it.
You are so used to seeking police power you don't have any concept for how liberty works. What if your family blocked access to that truck repair shop until they cleaned up their act? What if you offered to help them?
I have a neighbor across a rural road. I'm a native plant geek. He doesn't care. Should I call the "weed police" and pay them full hazard-pay retirement? Should I get zoning laws passed?
I don't. I take care of his weeds to protect my property, and maintain easements thereby. Why? Every time, and I do mean EVERY time we ask "authorities" to solve a dispute, we pay for it, dearly. Not only is that cost in money and time, it is in liberty. Best you get that through your thick skull.
“What Salman did was abuse his right as a property owner and was inconsiderate of his neighbors.”
Can you be more specific?
His neighbors signed a petition, again obviously outside the covenants.
I prefer when Laws rule, not mobs. But then that is a Republic not a Democracy. I really do not care why he is having meetings in his home. But I do find it suspect that I do not hear of homosexual groups being imprisoned for what they do in the privacy of their own homes.
The words “Politically Correct” is simply a way to say wrong, but voted overwhelmingly right.
Amerika, the land of the Fee and the home of the Knave.