All panic, no relief...

Well, FreeAmerica has joined the WarOnChristmas [Copyright Foxnews] defense. On this one, I actually agree with her. Thankfully, the rightwing blogosphere has struck a blow against those evil secular humanists. Thought I'd let her know:

I'm sure you would have brought it up sooner or later, but you've won this battle against the vast liberal conspiracy against Christmas. It should come as no surprise to you that I'm a huge fan of the separation of church and state [for another discussion]. I've often made the case that we Christians spend entirely too much time trying to figure out how we can insert our faith into the public sector...and then get way too defensive when governments push back.

In this case, I happen to agree with you. I wouldn't have pulled the 1st Amendment alarm quite as quickly, but I do believe San Diego Co. over reacted and handled the fallout fairly poorly. This is what happens when governments get involved with religion, regulation or otherwise. They tend to be fairly clumsy about it.

Don't get me wrong, local municipalities have a right and responsibility to zone churches appropriately. In fact, when I was growing up, one of our neighbors started a church in his garage. He probably averaged 20-50 people every Sunday...not to mention the other gatherings. It did cause a parking/traffic issues and hard feelings with the neighbors. Although, I still think they were making too big of a deal out of it, there were problems nonetheless. This is one of the reasons these zoning/usage regulations exist and churches are not immune. There's a fine line between a church [in this case, a "religious assembly"] and a bible study. I don't doubt that this is the latter but where is the line? Is it 25 people? 30? 50? 100? I'm not one that freaks out over people parking on his road [as long as I have off street parking :)]. However, there are those who do. I have a feeling that's where this issue started: a whiney neighbor and a poorly trained or over zealous code enforcement officer.

By the way...I get the idea behind this blog, but what does this topic have to do with Obama, change, or "show[ing] what a liar Obama is".