[on whether D.C. should enforce parking rules against the congregants of certain Logan Circle churches]
Pastors claimed that enforcing double-parking regulations would “turn the city into a one-class, one-race gated community” and “kill—our congregations.”
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You already get away with not having to pay taxes, now you think you can disregard the road rules too? Faaaaaark, give them an inch, they take light year.
No taxes, no laws, no rules or regulations, and now no having to follow the same rules as the rest of the city. Must be tough to be so damn persecuted.
@szena
It's not a race or a class issue at all. People actually have to live in that area and there are alternatives to every member of the five local churches parking in the same place.
With that many people attending churches there, they have more than enough numbers to justify hiring a bus every Sunday or, they could just as easily catch the metro.
Ordinary people should not have to suffer because others want the luxury of driving into church.
All those suggestions above.
How many people in that area for other things are being blocked in? Are they supposed to wait till your done hearing the same shit youv'e already heard 100 times? Fire breaks out and emergency operations can't get in properly. There is a reason for these laws.
@Mr Smith - my friend who lives in the area is the one who told me that the historically black churches drew their membership from the neighborhood and it's only been since the gentrification which forced the young black families to move further out that there has been a big problem. Do you disagree?
I still can't see this as particularly fundie.
"enforcing double-parking regulations would “turn the city into a one-class, one-race gated community"
Uhh How?
It's so sad that while there is still so much actual racism in this country, these pastors pull shit like this so they can continue to get special breaks.
Especially when there are metro stations nearby according to the article. In Saint Louis were I live, people often use the metro to go downtown, driving to a convenient station so to avoid the horrific parking in the city.
These churches are simply being bad neighbors. If they are harming the community that supports them, they get no sympathy from me.
Okay, at first I thought this might be a small church with elderly parishioners. But when I read the story.
Sunday morning, thousands of parishioners flood five churches north of the circleVermont Avenue Baptist, Metropolitan Baptist, Eleventh Street Baptist, Way Back to Pentecost Church, and the Church of Christ.
Thousands? Yeah I'd be screaming for the city to enforce parking regulations too.
If double parking regulations will "kill...our congregations," I propose no parking regulations in all these churches.
Let's have a test of faith, shall we?
szena
The congregations there are free to worship at their local church. There are also better ways of traveling than using cars.
I wont disagree that people may have been displaced out of the area, but the does not prevent them from taking their churches with them, or from finding alternate means of transport that enable their neighbors to live in peace.
So to sum up, I don't disagree with you. But I still fail to see how this is a race issue.
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