{"id":245,"date":"2006-03-11T23:41:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-11T23:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/03\/kelo-strikes-again.html"},"modified":"2006-03-11T23:41:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-11T23:41:00","slug":"kelo-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/03\/kelo-strikes-again.html","title":{"rendered":"Kelo Strikes Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank&#8217;s a lot Supreme Court! You opened the door to all kinds of governmental shenanigans and years and years of litigation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>City leaders in Long Beach, Calif., have classified the Filipino Baptist Fellowship&#8217;s building as a blighted area and are forcing the congregation out in order to make way for condominiums.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nCurrently, there are eight other active cases of eminent domain abuse against churches across the country, according to the Institute for Justice, a civil liberties law firm in Arlington, Va.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest of the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpnews.net\/bpnews.asp?ID=22812\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n(Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/latinoissues.blogspot.com\/\">Latino Issues<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank&#8217;s a lot Supreme Court! You opened the door to all kinds of governmental shenanigans and years and years of litigation. City leaders in Long Beach, Calif., have classified the Filipino Baptist Fellowship&#8217;s building as a blighted area and are forcing the congregation out in order to make way for condominiums. &#8230; Currently, there are&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-under-the-sun"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kelo Strikes Again - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/03\/kelo-strikes-again.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kelo Strikes Again - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Thank&#8217;s a lot Supreme Court! 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