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"Brenda Ann" wrote:

"dave" wrote in message
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The point is that the bible study is a get together not a service and
government has no business regulating it.

Right to assemble...? Next to go is the first amendment.
You have a right to assemble but not a right to do it where ever you
want.

Yeah we do.


No, you don't. No right is absolute.

Try to peaceably assemble in a Wal Mart parking lot some time..

That's private property.

Municipalities have a legitimate right to regulate traffic and parking in
residential areas to protect the rights of all in the neighborhood to peace
and parking spaces. There likely would be no problem if the prayer group
took public transportation or carpooled so that the entire street was not
filled with the group's vehicles.

Baloney. The parking in the neighborhood is unregulated. Anybody can
park in front of anyone else's house. This is a county street with none
of the usual in town street regulations.

This is a red herring anyway. The problem has nothing to do with
parking. The county wants the preacher to get a use permit to hold bible
study at his house, which is a lot of time and money, and this permit
could be denied in any event.

A friend of mine had five or six cars. He was the only house on that side of
the street for the entire block, so he parked them all along his side of the
block. The city made him garage, divest or move all but three anyway.

Nice story but it has nothing to do with this one. Maybe you could read
about it.

http://www.10news.com/news/19562217/detail.html

I was listening to this story the other morning on KFMB 760.

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Telamon
Ventura, California