The time: 10:54 am, Sunday, September 10, 2006.
The place: Grace United Methodist Church, Gaithersburg, Maryland.
I’ll let y’all draw your own conclusions.
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And the church even said that the day laborers could use the church’s bathrooms! Disguisting!
[…] Sunday Morning at the Church […]
[…] I myself am disappointed — and occasionally get angry — with anyone who shows a lack of respect for other people, their culture and their property, and I apply this symmetrically. I’m often disappointed with the Minutemen, for example, especially when they seem to be demonizing entire groups of people in an unfair manner. I’m also often angry with people who feel that they have no obligation to respect local cultural norms when visiting places away from their home. This includes both “Ugly American” tourists (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugly_American if you don’t understand the reference) as well as Latino immigrants who pee on churches and fail to learn enough conversational English to get by after more than a decade in this foreign land. […]
[…] There are of course problems resulting from the behavior of some of the laborers and others who are drawn to a place where it is OK to hang around with nothing to do. Some of these behaviors, such as drinking and peeing in public, or harassment of women, are sometimes claimed to be rooted in Hispanic culture, and people who complain about these things are often painted as xenophobes. But again this is silly — one does not typically see these behaviors from most Hispanics. These are unacceptable behaviors from anyone of any culture and it is perfectly legitimate to object to anything that would bring more of it to one’s neighborhood. If the post wishes to discuss “decency”, perhaps they could first discuss the decency of those who engage in these disruptive activities. After a fruitless yearlong search for a site to place a day-laborer center, city officials have declared defeat, turned tail and thrown themselves — and dozens of immigrant day laborers — on the mercy of Montgomery County. […]