Not The Onion

11061 readers

1827 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

Links to news stories from...
...credible sources, with...
...their original headlines, that...
...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Comments must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

kescusay

423

As folks freeze to death in Milwaukee, Ohio pastor charged for offering shelter (www.jsonline.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/nottheonion

63 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Unfortunately (in this case), freedom of religion, in the US, only protects your right to practice your religion free from persecution. You can't break the law and then justify it by saying it was a form of religious expression.

[–] Duamerthrax 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Laws aren't just because they're laws. The police could have simply practiced their right to discretion and ignored the zoning law for the duration of the blizzard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

The police are too busy firing less-lethal weapons at peaceful protesters to do anything that would benefit society. They were within the law, doing what they did. I'm not saying I support it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Scientology seems to get away with it fairly often. And all those holy roller type christian churches bringing conservative politics into their services despite their tax exempt status. But this is where we draw the line - keeping people from dying of hypothermia.