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Maybe we need a law requiring that the Ten Commandments be posted in churches instead of schools.

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We have a mosque near us that has a stoplight installed at the nearby corner. They must still hire cops on Friday afternoon/evenings, because of the traffic load. I'm not complaining about it. It's annoying, but it's also a highly consistent and predictable traffic pattern - something anyone with half a brain can plan around. I bring it up to say that this megachurch is probably fooling itself if it thinks a stoplight is going to remove the cost of them hiring traffic cops for Sunday mornings.

Back in the Pleistocene I also worked for the cops as a traffic aide. Stepping out in front of commuters with a handheld 'stop' sign to help regulate rush hour traffic, because you get a lot more people ignoring the law, the lights, and the posted signage when they are frustrated and want to get home. I would never do that now - too much road rage. Someone would hit me. But the point being, if people are getting wound up and fighting about the traffic this church creates, a light isn't necessarily going to stop them from behaving badly.

𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 “𝑗𝑜𝑘𝑒” 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑎𝑑 𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦, 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦, 𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑-𝑓𝑜𝑟-𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑, 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟. (𝐻𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜 𝑖𝑡.)

I'm frankly almost more incensed about this. Nothing illegal going on here, but it reveals just how insincere they are. Can't be bothered to even write your own apology? Then it's not really your apology.

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