[servantboy777]

Never hold up in court.

[Sacajaweau]

Zoning is not “law”...

[Sacajaweau]

DUMB town....

[pnh102]

Can these tyrants be removed from power?

[PalmettoMason]

My Bibles?

MOLON LABE!

[FES0844]

Those city officials should be run out of town.

[dennisw]

Does this mean that druggie satanists can’t hold meeting about skinning black cats and such?

[Desdemona]

Sorry, this “law” is a direct violation of the 1st amendment, which is man’s law that coincides with God’s. This one should be tossed in a heartbeat.

[Common Sense 101]

It seems these stories pop up every day, with greater and greater frequency... how much longer is it going to take for people to finally say “enough”?

[Dallas59]

Had they been Muslims or Atheists...crickets...

[Darkwolf377]

There will always be little people in positions of power who will TRY anything. Whether they have the right to do it doesn’t matter—they know that all that need happen is that no one challenge them.

[Quix]

FINE THE OFFICIALS FOR UNCONSTITUTIONAL OUTRAGEOUSNESS.

CLUELESSNESS STRIKES AGAIN.

I guess the vocabulary in the Constitution is above some folks IQ levels.

[sneakers]

What??!!!

I agree with the poster who said it would never hold up in court.

[I_Like_Spam]

Since drinking parties and poker games that attract the same size of group are allowed, just keep some beer bottles and decks of cards around the house for the members to grab as props if the police come a knocking to enforce this.

[TexasFreeper2009]

ok ... on the surface this seems outrageous... However.. would you REALLY want your neighbor running a church or anything else very regular out of his house filling up the street with cars ect?

[mware]

The town interprets its law so that "churches within its borders cannot have any home meetings of any size, including Bible studies, three-person church leadership meetings and potluck dinners," ADF said.

So let me get this straight if a group of people are gathering to share a dinner and it is for a religious reason, it is illegal.

Wonder if they ever heard of Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.

[Oratam]

Call yerselves a book club and see if they catch on.

[COBOL2Java]

Pastor Joe Sutherland had been told in a letter from code compliance officer Steve Wallace that the people were not allowed to meet in a home for church activities under the city's Land Development Code.

In case you'd like to offer your feedback to Mr. Wallace:

Steve Wallace
Inspector II
Code Compliance
90 E Civic Center Dr
Gilbert, AZ 85296
(480) 503-6725
steve.wallace@gilbertaz.gov

[Gay State Conservative]

That would get shot down so fast in the courts....

[sodpoodle]

You have to believe - had this been a weekly *gay celebration orgy* the ACLU would be all over it.