Originally posted by: HotChic
Did anyone read the rest of the article? It sounds like the presence of these bookstores is a large, ongoing community problem, not just some small stuff the pastor took on out of self-righteousness.
This neglected stretch of auto salvage yards, trailers and rickety wood-frame houses seems at first glance to be sliding into despair. But at one house, someone has resolutely planted a 5-foot wooden cross in the middle of a scraggly lawn; at another house, plastic ducks decorate a freshly swept front porch.
The sound of children's laughter filters from a playground nearby. There is life here, but outsiders don't seem to notice, said Gloria Price, who has lived in the area since 1970. "When we were unincorporated, everything just got dumped out here," she said, adding that something should have been done about the adult-oriented places "a long time ago."
The targets of Norwood's concern are not thrilled. "What other people do is not his business," said Roger Vallez, 47, as he left the video store. Vallez, who said he was a contract engineer, said he wouldn't welcome nude clubs in his neighborhood, though. "There ought to be a place in the middle of nowhere for these places."
It sounds like the patrons of this store are more from out of the area and consider this a dumping ground they wouldn't want in THEIR neighborhoods. I think the pastor, practically, thinks of this less as an evangelism tool and more as a way to try to shape the community differently. From one view you could call it intimidation, and from another you could call it protest.
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