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CEASE & DESIST: Town Orders Family to Stop Hosting Bible Studies on Farm
toddstarnes.com ^ | 7/18/18 | Todd Starnes

Posted on 07/19/2018 2:37:17 AM PDT by a little elbow grease

July 18, 2018

The owners of a Pennsylvania farm have been ordered by the Sewickley Heights Borough to cease and desist holding Bible studies on their private property.

Borough leaders accused Scott and Terri Fetterolf of improperly using their 35-acre farm as a place of worship, a place of assembly and as a commercial venue. They were served a cease-and-desist order in October 2017, the Post-Gazette reported.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: farm; firstamendment; government; pennsylvania; religion
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To: a little elbow grease

As usual, if you see a headline that makes you mad and makes you want to click on it and make angry comments, stop and look and get a few more details. It took me a little while to figure this out.


41 posted on 07/19/2018 5:00:01 AM PDT by Drawsing (Fools show their annoyance at once, the prudent man overlooks an insult. Proverbs 12:16)
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To: Labyrinthos

Zoning is often abused by the powerful.


42 posted on 07/19/2018 5:00:39 AM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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To: bert; a little elbow grease
Damages, damages man....... how much damages did they ask?

Online Version of Lawsuit Filed

43 posted on 07/19/2018 5:01:11 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Marxism: Wonderful theory, wrong species)
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To: a little elbow grease

Besides that house there is usually a carriage house for the servants. The houses are usually not visible from the public road, all you see is hundreds of yards of old, hand laid stone fences. The driveways are hundreds of yards long.

If the Boro police happen to pull one of the residents over for DUI on the way home they arrange for them and their car to get home and apologize.


44 posted on 07/19/2018 5:04:23 AM PDT by E.Allen
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To: silverleaf
"In order to get controls established, globalists have chosen to take several routes toward the end goal, both coercive and voluntary. In order to obtain voluntary concessions, proponents of these ideas find the public-education system quite useful to first indoctrinate kids coercively, through such schemes as “Common Core.” In other words, the same basic “standards” promoting radical environmentalism and acceptance of a lower standard of living are taught in all schools in America through a Common Core curriculum. (But as is the case with Agenda 21, proponents deceitfully argue that Common Core is not a national curriculum, but locally adopted “standards.” While some of the “standards” are unobjectionable, others are designed to promote a progressive or left-wing agenda. Education thus becomes indoctrination.) This makes Agenda 21 hard to fight: There is a high level of buy-in by the masses."

That's a quote from THIS ARTICLE, that I read almost simultaneously this morning.

45 posted on 07/19/2018 5:05:27 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: Alberta's Child

I guess that can be true. Maybe they are a bunch of Holy Rollers making a lot of racket praising the Lord and disturbing the neighborhood. :)


46 posted on 07/19/2018 5:21:41 AM PDT by MagnoliaB (You can't always get what you want but if you try sometime you might find, you get what you need.)
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To: a little elbow grease

This story sounds fishy. I wonder if they were operating something other than a farm or “church”.


47 posted on 07/19/2018 5:24:38 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: a little elbow grease
"Mrs. Fetterolf was informed by the borough that she was holding too many events and would need permits — costing $500 each— to continue offering many of the activities."

Wait for it... Wait for it... And there it is! The looters down at city hall weren't getting their protection money. You just knew it had to be something like this.

48 posted on 07/19/2018 5:45:45 AM PDT by Desron13 (Inside every progressive is a petty tyrant straining to break free.)
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To: sphinx
As I recall having read the U.S. Constitution, as I recall there is an amendment in that document contradicting what that Township is demanding. Could it be possible that the "farm" is using the Bible studies as a tax dodge? Didn't see that noted in the article. Just a thought.
49 posted on 07/19/2018 5:54:02 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: a little elbow grease

This is a neighbor dispute. One neighbor doesn’t like the other, and has friends in code enforcement.


50 posted on 07/19/2018 5:57:10 AM PDT by blackdog
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To: DaveA37

Like the Clinton foundation?


51 posted on 07/19/2018 5:58:09 AM PDT by blackdog
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To: Alberta's Child

If it were a residential subdivision, maybe, but an assembly at a 32 acre farm is a nuisance?


52 posted on 07/19/2018 6:06:34 AM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: a little elbow grease; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks a little elbow grease. It's the most clearcut case of a violation of First Amendment rights to emerge in a while.

53 posted on 07/19/2018 6:11:29 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: a little elbow grease

Why should they have to get permits for using their PRIVATE property? Maybe all the Pennsylvania Dutch should need permits too for their gatherings. This country was founded as a CHRISTIAN nation. Time to shove it too these rampant athiests who threaten our freedoms.


54 posted on 07/19/2018 6:20:41 AM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: a little elbow grease

Do not comply.


55 posted on 07/19/2018 6:22:09 AM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: a little elbow grease

This is an attack on “our” 1st amendment rights. I guess the government should imprison you for dropping a “F” bomb.


56 posted on 07/19/2018 6:23:51 AM PDT by Retvet (Retvet)
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To: a little elbow grease

I love the way Max Rafferty phrased that. He was Reagan’s education commissioner when Reagan was governor.

Rafferty said that “I get a lot of letters suggesting that I go off somewhere and perform a biological impossibility.”

Another favorite comes form the Washington Times. Before Washington got the Nationals, they had annual exhibition games just before the season. One time, they played in snow, called the game after five innings, called the game — just as it stopped snowing. At which point, as the Times put it, “the fans began a chant that had to do with what a matador steps in.”


57 posted on 07/19/2018 6:27:48 AM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: a little elbow grease
“The borough has no business overseeing a group of people reading and discussing a book together on private property – even especially if that book is the Bible,” attorney Randall Wenger said in a statement.

Fixed that for him.

58 posted on 07/19/2018 6:38:52 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: a little elbow grease

I do not know if this is true or not, but I was told by a veteran, that a veteran can get what is called a peddlers license and you can sell anything you want where ever.

If this guy is a vet, he can get that license-its free. All he needs is to go down to the county offices with your discharge papers and the HAVE TO issue it.


59 posted on 07/19/2018 6:39:59 AM PDT by crz
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To: MagnoliaB

Trust us, if you live around the area or outskirts you would be well aware that Sewickely is a cesspool of leftist thought.


60 posted on 07/19/2018 6:43:19 AM PDT by afterhoursarmory
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