6 congressmen live in house subsidized by religious group

Arizona Republic ^ | 4/21/03

[areafiftyone]

WASHINGTON - Six members of Congress live in a $1.1 million Capitol Hill townhouse that is subsidized by a secretive religious organization, tax records show.

The lawmakers, all Christians, pay low rent to live in the stately red brick, three-story house on C Street, two blocks from the Capitol. It is maintained by a group alternately known as the "Fellowship" and the "Foundation" that brings together world leaders and elected officials through religion.

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[tnlibertarian]

Didn't Barney Frank have to rent out some of his rooms a few years ago?

Yeah, his roommate had to enter through the back door.

[dogbyte12]

Well, let's just see then. Again, I have no particular bones about the group who owns the place, I just am uncomfortable with any group giving group rates to members of congress.

My concerns would be the same if they were like I said earlier, being put up in housing by IBM, UAW, NEA, AT&T, you name it.

Come to think of it, I am uncomfortable with it, even if it isn't subsidized at a discount rate. I don't like any organization with national business being the landlords of congress critters. I would be much more comfortable with a private individual without a direct connection to a large group being the person renting out to congress critters.

[Mister Baredog]

That secrecy is unsettling to the Rev. Barry Lynn, a United Church of Christ minister who heads the watchdog group Americans United for the Separation of Church and State

It's despicable for this moron to prance all over the TV and elsewhere pretending to be a religious leader. He is a religion hater. He wants religion practiced ONLY in the closet. He totally ignores the part of the 1st amendment HE doesn't like.

[Grampa Dave]

This is not news! It is just more sniping by the anti Christians on the left and right.

Here is some real news that the left and right should be up in arms about some housing in the DC area!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/895719/posts

Movers & Shakers Daschle Does D.C.

Who's buying, who's selling in the world of high-end real estate:


Minority Leader Livin' Large


The honorable(gag) gentleman from South Dakota.


Senator Tom Daschle may earn a meager salary of $171,900, but together with lobbyist wife Linda, he's got enough to live large. The Daschles are currently under contract to buy a $2.25 million seven-bedroom house on Washington D.C.'s ritzy Foxhall Road, according to local sources. The property itself is described as a French country colonial home, with four stories, and a 12,855 square-foot yard with a heated pool. The home the Daschles are selling is a considerably more modest three-bedroom $739,000 townhouse.

So La Da$$hole is ready to buy a French Estate in DC and move in, and people have their BVDs uptight about 6 Christian Congressmen renting room to be able to stay in DC!

It is amazing how the Christian Haters and Jewish haters control the media and have a lapdog following.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/895719/posts

[AmishDude]

This is my point. What about a large regional landlord? Heck, what about a person who rents out a house? Anyone in business has interests that are before Congress. Anyone.

[Mister Baredog]

It is this part that irks me!

What irks you? They aren't spending your money. Got something against a prayer breakfast?

[concerned about politics]

"What concerns people is when you mix religion, political power, and secrecy," Lynn said.

When a president keeps foreign leaders waiting in the Rose Garden while he does the nasty it's considered his private life, yet when a few men pray together AFTER work, their private life is a national crises? Huh?

[Theo]

$600 per month per room in a $1.1 million place? Yeah, they are getting a price break. I encourage you to try to find a room for rent in a place that costs that much, for $600 a month.

Um. How many people are renting at $600 per month? If there are 6 congressmen in various rooms/apartments in that building, that's $3600 per month. That seems reasonable.

[AnalogReigns]

"The Fellowship," just so people know, is the group behind the National Prayer Breakfast, officially hosted every year by members of Congress but really organized by these guys. The President always attends, as do many congressmen and foreign dignitaries. My Dad has been loosly affiliated with them for many years--they are about the nicest, kindest, most welcoming (and scrupulously apolitical) group of evangelical Christians around. They help organize bible study groups among busy politicians--very purpously bi-partisan--and do absolutely no lobbying.

It's amazing that such a benign group can raise any hackles at all--but proves to me again that "spiritual warfare" is real.

God bless these guys--they'd appreciate your prayers FReepers....

[AmericanVictory]

For years liberal members of Congress have lived in, and liberal organizations, such as the Washington office of Nation, have been in a building owned by the United Methodist Church in a building across from the Capitol on one side and the Supreme Court on the other. Have Barry Lynn or any others ever investigated this? Of course not.

[showme_the_Glory]

This is indeed vey series. To think that grown ups would be sharing a boarding house while serving in Congress AND would also have connections to religeous groups with sound morals and good intentions. How can this continue?

[Theo]

I do believe that $600 rent for a room in a $1.1 million spread is subsidized housing, and it needs to stop.

I know you wrote that before I wrote my response to your earlier posting. You see where you missed some facts, right? -- that they're paying at least $3600 per month for rooms in that building, not $600?

[Eva]

If the resident Congressman were speaking publicly about the effect of religion on their lives this "watchdog" would complain, also. What he is really saying is that he doesn't want any "Christians" in congress. I put quotes on Christians because I am sure that this minister of the United Church of Christ thinks of himself as a Christian, but his church is probably more appropriately called the United Church of the anti-Christ.

[Corin Stormhands]

I do not like this. I do believe that $600 rent for a room in a $1.1 million spread is subsidized housing...

$600 x 6 is $3,600 a month. And no, for a room on Capital Hill, it is not subsidized housing.

[Mr. Bird]

Come to think of it, I am uncomfortable with it, even if it isn't subsidized at a discount rate. I don't like any organization with national business being the landlords of congress critters

You can't avoid it in D.C. For cryin' out loud, The Watergate (Bob Dole's home for all those years) is owned by a Swiss corporation that is obviously impacted by U.S. legislation.

[eleni121]

"What concerns people is when you mix religion, political power, and secrecy," Lynn said

What concerns me is Lynn's witchunting of Christians. What concerns me is Lynn's tax exempt organization whose sole mission is to undermine morality and democracy. What concerns me is Lynn's psychopathic single minded anger at Christians while ignoring every other religious faith - including that ideology called Islam.

[nfldgirl]

One of the most amusing things I've heard was the absolute demolition of Barry Lynn by James White on a debate about homosexuality.

Tell me more...or do you have a link?