Rooms to let; atheists need not apply

[kskiska]

The way Joe Fabics sees it, he has the right to choose who lives under his roof with him. His choice: God-fearing Christians. But state officials are investigating whether Fabics is violating housing discrimination laws by asking tenants in his New Brunswick house to sign leases with phrases such as, "This is a Christian household" and "If you hate God, do not move in."

"I try to tell people to believe in God and the Ten Commandments, not the desecration of today's teachings," he said. "I'm just telling them that this is a Christian household and that if they don't believe in God, they will feel uncomfortable. Most people understand that and don't try to push their way in. This is not communism."

(snip)

"People lie to me, and then when they move in, they don't care about God or morality or anything," he said. "I don't want people that use drugs, alcoholics, people that lie."

He also doesn't want unmarried tenants spending the night with a boyfriend or girlfriend.

"That's against the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church," he said, but "I can't control that."

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[DanCa]

1. It seems that this jerk hates more than atheists

He sounds like that whack job who blew up his building in New York a few weeks back.

[saltpoint]

2. If the Rapture actually occurs, it's the fundies whose checks will bounce.

[beam me up scottie]

3. Funny...

"People lie to me, and then when they move in, they don't care about God or morality or anything," he said. "I don't want people that use drugs, alcoholics, people that lie."

Who fits that description?

[DanCa]

8. Hey if this nut job blows up his building -

like the pyscho in New York that would make two. Would that be enough to ban right wing radio from the air waves?

[beam me up scottie]

11. Of course not, silly.

He's a soldier for the Prince of Peace.

Why do you hate Jesus?

[DanCa]

13. LOL

Do you really want to get me started after last week :)
:hug:
Hey Ill compromise I'll let him put salvation in my ear, if i can put some buck shot in his rear.

[beam me up scottie]

14. I know, sweetie.

I'm really sorry about that. :hug:

But they can't keep this up much longer, too many people have seen the pathetic little man behind the curtain.

[DanCa]

17. I know

I just still get white hot and depressed just by thinking about what happened.
Thank you for your support . Without DU I would probably been on anti-psychotics right now.

:hug:

[mcctatas]

4. I think he's doing a public service...

at least sane apartment seekers are forewarned, and do not find themselves suddenly in the middle of a fundie, rapture-ready, nightmare!;)

[lumpy]

7. Yes, bless his heart,

very thoughty of him to forwarn us normal people.

[kevinbgoode]

30. So what happens if we start posting signs saying "no right wing christians

allowed? You can bet they'd be screaming into the courtroom so fast their bible leaves would be waving in the wind. . .

[rodeodance]

31. --all hell will break out (O'Lielly will be on it in a jiffy).

[LostinVA]

36. Catholics don't believe in the Rapture

Just an annoying FYI from an ex Catholic who also taught catechism....

[Bassic]

39. Indeed, we think the Rapture is pretty close to Heresy. nt

[LostinVA]

42. I was taught it pretty much was

Those crazy Prots!

[Bassic]

45. Yeah, they're crazy

:D :hi:

[kestrel91316]

47. The Rapture isn't even a Protestant thing. It's an ultra-conservative

biblical literalist fundamentalist whacko thing. Like Foursquare Gospel Church, and Southern Baptist, and snake-handler churches.

Don't just go blaming the Protestants in general now.

I was raised nominally Presbyterian and never heard of the Rapture until the PTL Club and Jim and Tammy Faye.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. He sounds certifiably insane.

On the bright side, he's only a landlord. At least he's not a pharmacist.

[Selatius]

6. If he followed Jesus, would he even charge rent at all?

Or would he award tenantship according to need?

[DanCa]

10. Correct me if I am wrong

but I thought the bible said that it was a bad thing that mary and joseph were turned away from the inn? Of course I didn't buy my bible from wal-mart.

[beam me up scottie]

9. So you can be a promiscuous christian with the morals of an alley cat

and you'd still be welcome.

He also doesn't want unmarried tenants spending the night with a boyfriend or girlfriend.

"That's against the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church," he said, but "I can't control that."

Well, as long as you're a hypocrite and not an atheist...:eyes:

[Erika]

12. So he assumes atheists are immoral?

This from the Catholic church? How amusing.

[Bluebear]

15. I am not moving into a JoAnn Fabrics anyhow.

Oh...

[beam me up scottie]

18. ROFLMAO !!!

You are precious, BB!

Thanks for ending the evening with a laugh!

I must sleep now...

[Bluebear]

21. G'night dearest

I love you guys.

[beam me up scottie]

26. Me too.

:hug:

[NMMNG]

16. The ignorant bigotry gets so boring after a while.

Call us immoral, but at least we're not blowing up other nations over our lack of belief.



Ooops, did I say that out loud?

[DanCa]

19. Or keeping cripples in wheel chairs

Buffy get me my 16 gauge and some dry shells. I'll show them whats immoral. What's that about an eye for an eye?

[NMMNG]

23. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth

They're so fond of quoting the Bible, you can quote it right back at them.

[DanCa]

24. You forget the part about

breaking the jaw bone of an ass. You can't get much more assier than Dubya and his fundie elk. Unless your talking about Ann Coulter.

[NMMNG]

27. Please, don't mention that woman

I just ate. :puke:

[DanCa]

28. LOL She's a woman?

Okay :hug: I am sorry. :D

[NMMNG]

29. Yeah

Don't insult transgenders or men by calling her anything else. She's a hag of a woman. x(


:hug:

[klyon]

43. They alway skip the next line that say something about

eternal damnation if they do take an eye for eye

[schmuls]

44. interesting...I have to start reading the bible again...

[Bluebear]

20. Ooops, did I say that out loud?

Yes you did and it is exactly what I have been thinking all day long. You don't see BLAMMO!!! KABOOM!!!! coming out of atheist quarters.

[DanCa]

22. Just like the guy in new york right

The guy who blew himself up because his wife wanted a divorce

[beam me up scottie]

25. Nope, sorry.

"You don't see BLAMMO!!! KABOOM!!!! coming out of atheist quarters."

I'm listening to Vivaldi at low volume, eating my organic fruit and will make sure I feed the strays and the birds outside before I turn in.

Not much BLAMMO in these atheist quarters, I'm afraid.

I'd hate to have me as a neighbor.

[NMMNG]

46. Nor do you ever see headlines like,

"Radical Atheist group bombs abortion clinic/gay bar."

"Radical Atheist suicide bomber kills dozens and wounds several hundred."

"Radical Atheists protest scientific advance that could cure deadly disease."

[A HERETIC I AM]

52. "Radical Atheist minds his own business while being charitable

and not calling attention to himself by wearing a lower case "A" around his neck"


Nope...won't ever see that headline either.

[NMMNG]

53. Well, you know

The newspapers only see fit to write stories about atheists when they're torturing Christians. You know, like when an atheist lets a Christian put a Cross memorial on the atheists land for over two weeks, then when the Christian doesn't take it down at the agreed upon time the atheist disposes of it. Mean old atheists! :sarcasm:

[Withywindle]

32. Y'know, I work at a newspaper that runs a lot of apartment ads

and this is nineteen hundred different kinds of illegal. We'd never accept an ad like this; we could be sued into oblivion for it, and rightly so.

HOWEVER.


I agree this kind of "honesty" can be a huge benefit to the consumer. Can you imagine renting a room in this place without knowing beforehand what kind of hateful control-freak whackjob you're dealing with until after you've laid down your deposit and signed your lease and had your stuff hauled in?

[BR_Parkway]

34. Under the Federal law, if they are renting rooms in their owner occupied

house and have 4 rooms or less to rent - it is legal. Local/State laws may be different, but at the Fed level, they didn't want to force these small people to have to deal with anything outside of their beliefs. Apparently the idea that the people who would refuse to rent could just stop renting never occured to them.

[LostinVA]

38. Per my understanding, NJ doesn't allow rental discrimination

on the basis of religion. My uncle rents out a garage apartment, and he's quite the bigot in every way, and was pissed that NJ law said he couldn't discriminate on race, religion, or sexual orientation.

[RebelOne]

33. I'm an atheist, but I really can't blame him.

I wouldn't want to rent to religious fundies, so it's within his right not to want to rent to atheists.

[Random_Australian]

37. You may not want to rent to fundies, but are you right to refuse people

you have never met? And remember, the group equivalent is 'evangelical' (I think) and there are many of those who are not so bad.

[no_hypocrisy]

35. I had a landlord who was just as religious -- however, he wasn't a pain

about it. He was an elderly man who would come up to do some repair, I'd offer him coffee, and he'd try to get me to come to his church. He'd talk some gospel, etc. But the difference was he didn't hold me in lesser regard because I didn't agree with him or convert on the spot. It was rather friendly. I never felt that my tenancy was at risk or we offended each other. I even attended his funeral and cried. To me, my landlord was more of a christian than the bigot in the original post.

[Deja Q]

40. Ironic; Christ told people to share. Even the Old Testament has its share

of parables...

Oh, Sodom and Gommorah was about people being greedy and selfish. Not about homosexuals. That stupid myth was debunked a looooooong time ago.

[leftyladyfrommo]

41. I ran into this all the time in Salt Lake City

The ads always said "no smokers or drinkers" and that meant Mormons only.

It was hard to find a place to live there.

[upi402]

50. and 'no coffee drinkers' would be an indicator n/t

[leftyladyfrommo]

51. Also no "coke"

No hot drinks. But lemonade was OK.

That was a really funny place to live. Not quite like any place else I have ever been.

[Nikki Stone 1]

48. "If you hate God..."? If you don't believe, there is nothing to hate.

Or am I missing something?

[RB TexLa]

49. If it is a house and not apartments, he should be legal in what he's doing

No different than I renting out a room in my house and saying "Bush supporters need not apply." The law gives more leeway if it is not apartments or a separate house.