During its Monday night meeting, Aberdeen’s City Council is exptected to introduce an amendment to its Development Code, as it relates to fortune telling – becoming the latest Harford County municipality to clarify where, when and how the practice of predicting the future for profit may be performed.
In early November, the Town of Bel Air began the process of making it “unlawful for any person in the Town of Bel Air to ask, demand, charge or accept any remuneration, gratuity or anything of value for forecasting or foretelling or for pretending to forecast or foretell the future of another, by cards, palm reading or any scheme, practice or device.”
The Aberdeen City Council session begins at 7 p.m. at City Hall.
The full agenda is listed below:
COUNCIL MEETING AGENDA
Council ChambersJanuary 10, 2011
Call to Order – Roll Call
Opening Prayer – Pastor Melvin Taylor, Word of Faith Outreach Ministries
Pledge of Allegiance – Councilwoman Elliott
Approval of Minutes: Council Meeting, December 20, 2010
PRESENTATIONS: None
PUBLIC HEARINGS: None
PUBLIC COMMENT: No more than five (5) minutes shall be given to any individual speaking unless the Council determines otherwise.
LEGISLATIVE SESSION:
Ordinance No. 11-O-01, Amendment to Development Code, Repeal Article III, Peace and Good Order, Fortune-Telling (For Introduction)
BUSINESS OF THE CITY:
1. Unfinished Business
2. New Business
3. Business from Director of Planning & Community Development
4. Business from Interim Chief of Police
5. Business from Director of Finance
Budget Amendment
6. Business from Director of Public Works
7. Business from City Manager
BUSINESS OF COUNCIL:
1. Business from the City Council
2. Business from the Mayor
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Next Council Work Session: Friday January 14, 2011 at 3:00 p.m.
Next Council Meeting: Monday, January 31, 2011 at 7:00 p.m.
ADJOURNMENT
And you should have seen the testimony of the opponents to the Bel Air Ordnance. Apparently the only imaginary magic that can be tolerated in this county is the magic that we teach impressionable young people when they go to church each weekend. You know, the same place that teaches tolerance and love of others, especially those different from us?
Now that is some serious fiction that this area can really do without.
Are you anti everything?
No, I just dislike dogma
poor guy some Sunday School teacher took away his paste.
On the contrary. I attended Sunday school and after school bible study. I enjoyed them immensely. Then I became aware of how poorly other people practice their faith. I then decided that it wasn’t the faith that was flawed, it was the way people promoted it and pretended that their version of the truth was somehow superior to the faiths of others.