CEASE & DESIST: Town Orders Family to Stop Hosting Bible Studies on Farm

toddstarnes.com ^ | 7/18/18 | Todd Starnes

[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.

[Drawsing]

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.

[hoosierham]

Zoning is often abused by the powerful.

[COBOL2Java]

Damages, damages man....... how much damages did they ask?

Online Version of Lawsuit Filed

[E.Allen]

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.

[knarf]

"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.

[MagnoliaB]

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. :)

[AppyPappy]

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

[Desron13]

"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.

[DaveA37]

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.

[blackdog]

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

[blackdog]

Like the Clinton foundation?

[Unam Sanctam]

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

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks a little elbow grease. It's the most clearcut case of a violation of First Amendment rights to emerge in a while.

[Mollypitcher1]

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.

[TBP]

Do not comply.

[Retvet]

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

[TBP]

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.”

[liberalh8ter]

“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.

[crz]

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.

[afterhoursarmory]

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