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Churches To Pay $10K In Parking Tickets

Churches in Idaho, being assisted by businessmen and women, will be using $10,000 to pay parking tickets for anyone and everyone...until the money runs out. It's called the Grace Gift Parable. The principle behind this parable is what? Paying the debts legitimately owed by people who have broken the law? Yep.  And that really torques some people off ... Some have questioned (during a previous event in 2004): Shouldn't this money have been used for the poor - especially at this holiday time of the year? People don't deserve this so-called grace, do they? Isn't this a publicity stunt? Interesting questions, though I sort of sense that honest answers may help honest questions/Dennis Mansfield. More here.

Question: What do you think of Boise churches paying $10,000 worth of parking tickets for anyone and everyone?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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