A NICE WELL MEANING CHRISTIAN COUPLE in phoenix started having friends over for bible study a few years ago. it worked out well, and it continued, and grew....and grew...
it got to the point where the neighbors starting complaining about the great number of cars, people, and noise coming to their neighborhood too often, increasing all the time.
the city got involved, by warning the nice suburban couple they were violating zoning and fire codes, because of the number of people on the property and the organized religious nature of the gatherings.
the nice married couple built a big building in their backyard, and got a permit for a "game room", presumably because their hood isn't zoned for churches. naughty naughty. false witness. tsk tsk...
how long do you have to study the bible before you feel like you've studied it enough? do people who join bible study groups realize that there are other books worthy of reading, and even study? but that's another question...
...at what point do you and your wife stop and think; hey! with all these people, and all this interest, why don't we just all go in together, buy land, and build a church? but that's another question...
so, anyway, bottom line, the couple deliberately, flagrantly and repeatedly violated city ordinances, in front of many witnesses, and the hubby is going to jail; for two months.
that's the ridiculous part. JAIL? can't we do any better than that? how about arbitration, the neighbors, the city, and the accused all having a say, and a judge bindingly arbitrating? no, that would make too much sense...
all cities must have ordinances. everyone has the right to have visitors; to a point. that point is reached when all the neighbors begin complaining regularly.
what we have here is a failure to communicate. so instead, we just lock 'em up...
Bb
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