aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Double parking, a religious freedom?

Pesky sacrilegious neighbors’ complaints about blocked streets are blocking religious freedom?

In the nation’s capital, where parking is scarce, churchgoers say plans to crack down on double-parking infringe on their religious rights.

Worshipers held a rally Sunday afternoon urging officials to let them continue a practice that has long been overlooked.

The D.C. Department of Transportation was planning to hand out warning tickets this weekend and real tickets starting in July, but officials now say they’ll review the enforcement program.

Cars have commonly been double-parked near DC churches on Sundays for decades, but police had largely ignored the practice until neighbors complained.

I have to note that my thoughtful Christian friends here would rue this misuse of the religious rights claim precisely because it gives secular liberals like me something to point to.

Via RawStory.