To: Mayor Miguel Pulido, Mayor, Council member David Benavides, City Council member, Mayor Pro Tem Claudia Alverez, Mayor Pro Tem, Ward 5, Santa Ana, Ca., and Council member Michele Martinez, City council member ward 2 (the ward where the Sa...
Save The Santora Art Building from the Christians
Needed outcome:
1- Stop the New Song organization from purchasing the Santora building! That the New Song organization and its money hungry leaders back out of this contract with Mike Harrah
2- They sign a contract in order to keep their religious worship, proselytizing, propaganda and their religious meetings OUT of the Santora building and take it elsewhere.
The Santa Ana, Ca. 92701, Artist Village is in big trouble! At its very heart there lies an art building, which is in escrow to be purchased for 6.4 million dollars by The New Song church, an Evangelical Christian organization from Orange county. This building just so happens to be the heart of Santa Ana's Artist Village and Santa Ana (like most cities in America) is already flooded with one Christian organization after another and the last thing it needs is a church inside the heart of the artist village where progressive thinking, intellectual thought and artistic freedom is to be appreciated and celebrated.
It is our concern that the artistic integrity of our daily lives is at risk of becoming censored, shut down and down right eradicated. We all have already heard about Jesus, and do not deem it appropriate to have a worship group superimposing its religious tenets upon a village of artists. The New Song organization and its ownership are indeed business people just like anyone else, and we're asking the city council of Santa Ana to form a contract with the organization and its leaders and owners, in order to keep their religious tenets and worship services out of the Santora Building. My personal belief is that Jesus would never, ever, even dream of doing such a thing. Please, lets keep dogmatic, power hungry, rich, organized and unoriginal religious worship out of the Santora Building with no censorship of the art or any of the artists within the building. This building is a historic building which has been dedicated and protected by the city for the purpose of artistic endeavors and now this wonderful building is in serious Jeopardy of being hijacked by the uncultured, antics of Religious, Christian, Dogma and the money hungry owners of the New Song organization, who only care about more members and tithing payers and not about the freedom of artistic expression.
David Benavides, a member of the city council is a member of the New Song organization and is believed to be a major roll in this 6.4 million dollar transaction. Business, Religion and Politics going hand and hand in America is a major injustice.
1- Stop the New Song organization from purchasing the Santora building! That the New Song organization and its money hungry leaders back out of this contract with Mike Harrah
2- They sign a contract in order to keep their religious worship, proselytizing, propaganda and their religious meetings OUT of the Santora building and take it elsewhere.
The Santa Ana, Ca. 92701, Artist Village is in big trouble! At its very heart there lies an art building, which is in escrow to be purchased for 6.4 million dollars by The New Song church, an Evangelical Christian organization from Orange county. This building just so happens to be the heart of Santa Ana's Artist Village and Santa Ana (like most cities in America) is already flooded with one Christian organization after another and the last thing it needs is a church inside the heart of the artist village where progressive thinking, intellectual thought and artistic freedom is to be appreciated and celebrated.
It is our concern that the artistic integrity of our daily lives is at risk of becoming censored, shut down and down right eradicated. We all have already heard about Jesus, and do not deem it appropriate to have a worship group superimposing its religious tenets upon a village of artists. The New Song organization and its ownership are indeed business people just like anyone else, and we're asking the city council of Santa Ana to form a contract with the organization and its leaders and owners, in order to keep their religious tenets and worship services out of the Santora Building. My personal belief is that Jesus would never, ever, even dream of doing such a thing. Please, lets keep dogmatic, power hungry, rich, organized and unoriginal religious worship out of the Santora Building with no censorship of the art or any of the artists within the building. This building is a historic building which has been dedicated and protected by the city for the purpose of artistic endeavors and now this wonderful building is in serious Jeopardy of being hijacked by the uncultured, antics of Religious, Christian, Dogma and the money hungry owners of the New Song organization, who only care about more members and tithing payers and not about the freedom of artistic expression.
David Benavides, a member of the city council is a member of the New Song organization and is believed to be a major roll in this 6.4 million dollar transaction. Business, Religion and Politics going hand and hand in America is a major injustice.
Why is this important?
The artist village in Santa Ana, Ca is in trouble and may be at the mercy of a very rich and powerful, money motivated, dogmatic, Christian organization. Artistic expression is in our town is in big trouble!