[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

Just sounds like old fashioned zoning to me. Bringing dozens of people over multiple times a week does impose costs on neighbors. If you want to start a church, buy a couple acres in a commercial area.

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WRONG.

Bible studies in hoes cannot be prohibited in and of themselves under our Constitution. This has always been the case, and it is remarkable how ignorant so many are about American history.

I studied this in graduate studies, how the British government pulled this same crap, limiting how many could meet in a house to prohibit religious meetings, and taxing them also (i.e. requiring “permits.”)

It is precisely one of the reasons we fought the Revolutionary War.

That people sit by and watch our liberties curtailed and actually applaud it is alarming.

[Rippin]

All I said was this is standard zoning. Standard zoning may be unconstitutional but this is nothing unusual.

[Polybius]

Just sounds like old fashioned zoning to me. Bringing dozens of people over multiple times a week does impose costs on neighbors. If you want to start a church, buy a couple acres in a commercial area. .... Rippin

Bible studies in homes cannot be prohibited in and of themselves under our Constitution. ...... Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

You are correct, Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears.

In this case, however, whether it is a "Bible study", or a "Tuppweware Party", or an "Oprah Book Club", or a "Bird Watcher's Club" that monoplizes the neighborhood parking places with a mob of 50 people twice a week, on a regular schedule, it is illegal in a residential neighborhood.

This is not about a "private home activity". This is about a regularly scheduled, mass attendence activity that significantly impacts the neighbors and violates residential zoning.

If you give a small dinner party, every single night, that impacts nobody but you and your property, that is nobody's business but your own.

On the other hand, if you feed 50 people, all at once, twice a week, and those people's cars are depriving the neighborhood of available parking spaces, you are running an illegal food kitchen in a residential neighborhood.

The Fromm case further involves regular meetings on Sunday mornings and Thursday afternoons with up to 50 people, with impacts on the residential neighborhood on street access and parking,” City Attorney Omar Sandoval said.

I studied this in graduate studies, how the British government pulled this same crap, limiting how many could meet in a house to prohibit religious meetings, and taxing them also (i.e. requiring “permits.”) It is precisely one of the reasons we fought the Revolutionary War.

We fought the Revolutionary War over residential neighborhood parking issues?