Posted on 03/30/2015 6:04:28 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
In commemoration of Palm Sunday, dozens of churchgoers marched into a Logan Square McDonald's singing, chanting and demanding a $15 minimum wage for the workers behind the counter.
About 80 congregants had gathered at the Logan Square Monument moments earlier to receive communion and to use the example of Jesus riding into Jerusalem a week before Easter to demand what they called a living wage for all low-wage workers.
"Jesus was participating in street theater on Palm Sunday. On that day he was riding in on that donkey. He was saying business as usual will not continue here," said Marilyn Pagan-Banks of San Lucas United Church of Christ in Humboldt Park, after she and several other clergy tried unsuccessfully to hand a letter to a McDonald's manager.
The event was organized by Arise Chicago and several churches in the Logan Square Ecumenical Alliance as part the "Fast for $15" program, in which congregants and community members were asked to abstain from fast-food restaurants during Lent.
The gathering was in support of the Fight for $15 campaign, which started in New York more than two years ago and has since filed hundreds of claims against McDonald's.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Demanding 10 dollar Big Macs
Yes...first thing I noticed was the signs. With one in Spanish. Church of the union....
“San Lucas United Church of Christ “
Probably opposed to churches that get involved in politics.
And look at all the rain ponchos too....printed similarly
It is sad and ironic how these communist losers call themselves religious. If you are worth more, then get a better damn job, or develop more valuable skills.
That’s political speech and that should cause them to lose their non-profit status.
McDonald’s has enough financial problems of its own. Why is it that protestors seem to flock to fast food restaurants?
check out the ponchos also....that many people have a red or yellow poncho with wording??
Then let those losers pay them, I will not eat out any more (not that I eat that Mc-crap anyway).
I want to know who paid for all the matching rain coats...
So to the extent that Jesus expressed an opinion on this issue, it is that a penny a day is the right minimum wage.
(Of course this is the King James translation--the Greek text has "denarius" which would be worth more than a penny in today's money.)
The United Church of Christ is a weekly Progressive rally called church.
Did they also demand to pay $10 for a $5 meal? Didn’t think so.
Well educated, upper-middle class, suburban-type folks....and each and every one of them slightly weird or "off" when it came to discussing political and religious issues of the day.
"Progressive" Democrat voters all....and I'll go no further. They made me uneasy....and I never pursued any acquaintanceship with any of them.
A study by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research found that over half of the UCC's memberships believe that the Bible is "not the highest authority" in the Christian religious world.
'Nuff said.
Leni
I’m pretty sure the participants protesting from the church could not find Matthew 20 in the Bible if their soul depended on it...
They probably know the union rules by the letter...
-—”Jesus was participating in street theater on Palm Sunday.-—
I wonder if they understand how offensive that is...
Marilyn Pagan Banks
Fast food?.. Bah, HUMBUG!
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