Anti-Christian Florida Town Council Tries to Force Churches to Get Business Licenses or Face Shut Down

by Warner Todd Huston | March 5, 2015 6:00 pm

The city council of a small town in Florida has become the newest oppressive government entity to try and end Christianity. The town council of Lake Worth, Florida is attempting to force churches to get a business license or face fines and a shut down. And its all over gays.

The city even sent its stormtroopers into one church[1] to ensure compliance.

City officials were so concerned about one congregation that they dispatched a code enforcement officer cloaked in a hoodie to spy on a Southern Baptist church that was meeting in a coffee house.

“Government employees are public servants and prohibited by the Constitution from inhibiting religious freedom,” said Mat Staver, founder of the religious liberty law firm Liberty Counsel. “That is a far cry from sneaking around and into a church and acting like KGB agents.”

Staver is calling on city leaders to immediately rescind the business license mandate on churches. He is also representing Common Ground Church, the congregation that was targeted by the city’s investigator.

So why was this done? Simply put, gays.

The church owns and operates a coffee house in downtown Lake Worth and government officials began to target the church over its supposed attack on gays.

The commissioner, [Pastor Mike] Olive said, did not seem to appreciate his message.

“He pointed at me and said, ‘Listen, you better not have a church down there,” Olive told me.

By the strangest of coincidences, a code enforcement officer showed up for a Sunday service on Feb. 8. He was wearing a hoodie and was armed with a concealed video camera, according to the letter Liberty Counsel sent to the city.

The code enforcement officer’s notes read like something out of a KGB report.

This is no less than un-American oppression of Christians.

Endnotes:
  1. sent its stormtroopers into one church: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/03/05/florida-city-wages-soviet-style-crackdown-on-churches/

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