Yes, there is enough news today on the church parking issue to both justify a roundup and provoke commenters into demanding that we stop covering the issue.

Church Parking Blog Launched: When in doubt, start a blog. Everyone has one, and as of this Tuesday, so does the vexing issue of church parking in Logan Circle. The blog’s author has chosen to remain anonymous (for fear of being damned to an enternity in hell, should God not be allowed to double-park this Sunday), but they have so far taken on Council-member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) and local ANC Commissioner Dee Hunter. We’re waiting for someone to counter with a blog on religious freedom or, better yet, how Logan Circle’s gentrifiers are using the parking issue as a means to drive out the remaining holdouts and rename the neighborhood Whitey Circle.

Everything is Official Business These Days: If anyone thinks DCist is dedicating a lot of time to the church parking issue, at least recognize this much — we ain’t got jack on the Washington Times, who seems to have assigned one of their few metro reporters to the career-making church parking beat. Today the Times breaks the news that pretty much anyone and everyone who can park illegally while on official government business does so. The practice has gotten so bad that even members of the clergy can park illegally by simply slapping a “Church Business” sign on their car. Even ANC Commissioner Hunter, long a proponent of double-parking on Sundays, does so, admitting the following to the Times:

I use it [official business sign] anytime I park anywhere. I go to church. I parked there with it this morning.

We guess it’s a little late to tell you that you do have the right not to incriminate yourself, Mr. Hunter.