While some D.C. politicians have spoken out on the chuch parking issue, one has been surprisingly quiet on the matter — Jack Evans, the council-member whose ward includes Logan Circle and Shaw. But as our newfound friends at Logan Circle Parking Problems pointed out to us, Evans has finally broken his silence on an issue that has politicians scrambling to find who they can stand to offend — churchgoers or area residents. Evans yesterday chose…

The Washington Times today features this quote, from a lawyer with an organization planning to oppose parking enforcement, “The law shouldn’t be applied in a way that unfairly burdens churches…This double-parking law is unconstitutional because it puts an unfair burden on the religious institution.” It’s often the smallest issues that expose deeper rifts within a city, and the growing imbroglio over illegal church parking threatens to grow into a full-scale exposure of Washington tensions. This,…