So when corrupt preachers rake in tens to hundreds of millions it's tax-exempt because it's not a business, but when a pastor actually cares for the needy like their book says to, that's a crime because it IS a business?
I just fucking hate this shit, Life is fucking hard. Why go out of your way to make it harder. The D.A. is going to argue some B.S. about how the zoning laws are there to protect people. Fire hazard shit. Ignoring the fact that the pastor was putting people at a very small risk to protect them from a very large risk.
Bad zoning laws are bad. And these laws are really bad (forcibly separating 'business' and residential are makes no sense to me) , but completely deregulating that (like allowing residential building directly adjacent to a dangerous chemical plant or in a flood zone) would be as bad.
Sounds to me like the pastor got that message. Nobody in the city's government cares about that, but he got it.
Good on the pastor for doing what he did. Anyone who speaks out about it, or endorses the charges laid against him should be ashamed. Honestly, you're going to condemn someone to die because of what? Because they're poor? Homeless? Does that mean we should treat them like they're not worthy of life?
Fuck you and the horse you rode in on. (Not you OP, I'm sure you're cool)
God that website though... eventually scrolled to a point it threw two interactive ads back to back, filling the screen, preventing me from scrolling. And all the ads were the same, like I saw it already, GOT IT, leave it alone
Go into settings on your app, set to open links in external browser. Assuming your primary browser is Firefox with ublock on, you shouldn't have a problem.
Even opening with my Lemmy app's internal browser, there were two easily closable pop-ups, and the embedded ads in the article didn't even load.
This title is horribly ambiguous. I thought the pastor was charging money to let people shelter in the church. Instead he was being a good human and allowing people to shelter in the church for free and was charged by the city.
The D.A. is the one to blame. Sure the zoning laws are shit, but the D.A. has discretion about which cases to bring and pursue. They could easily just move the fuck along like they do with any number of other cases they do in the year, but having worked with a number of these dipsticks in a previous life, I can guarantee you they saw it as an easy win and didn't expect to get the attention they did. D.A.s are just as bad as police officers when it comes to selective enforcement and application of the law and should be scrutinized much more closely during local elections.
D.A.s are just as bad as police officers when it comes to selective enforcement and application of the law
That's because they ARE cops. They weren't originally supposed to be, but they do the exact same thing as cops do: put as many people behind bars or to death as they possibly can regardless of whether or not they're guilty.
Just like cops will get funding based on their "solve rate" whether or not they actually got the real culprit every or even MOST times, DAs run for re-election based on their conviction rate, no matter how many miscarriages of justice are counted amongst those "wins'
That's the Milwaukee DA. The story leads with Milwaukee but the Ohio pastor being cited was actually in Ohio, specifically Williams County. The DA there is, in fact, a Republican. Though not necessarily a "RepubliQan" as stated.
A fair point - the Milwaukee journal sentinel article talks about people freezing in Milwaukee and then jumps to Ohio. I didn’t catch the jump and, honestly it’s a little weird. Still, my bad. Thank you all for pointing it out.
This is a non-sequiter, given that Milwaukee is nearly 300 miles and three states away from Ohio. It's like, 'eat your vegetables, people are starving in China.'
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