Do you think it's ok to shut down a city street for a church

Only if it blocked me from going where I wanted to go that day.....I'd be annoyed, but get over it and take a detour.

If this is really, really cranking you up, then you need to expand your horizons and worry about larger issues.

No. But it annoys me when they close the highway for an entire day to film a movie.

Nope. As long as there are signs with detours

This. 

A little surprised preaching, worship music is allowed. And I've always been surprised when our church has gotten permission in the summer to have a service in the park, too. 

While the church may not pay taxes other social groups like the Lions/Kiwanis, Women's league, City foodbank, lbqt groups do not pay taxes as a group either; the individual people who make up the church and other social organizations do all pay taxes, just like you.

Just because a group believes differently than you doesn't mean they have to be treated differently. After all, you wouldn't want the city to deny a social group from having a gay pride parade because it annoys someone would you? 

As long as they are following the city protocol for getting proper permits ANYONE should have the right to close a street for an activity... or no one should be able to. 

Streets around here get shut down for the university home coming activities, various high school home coming activities, gay pride, veteran's day parade, a variety of 3k/5k runs, art/craft fair..... we just go around. 

It wouldn't bother me in the least.

I live in a large city and it's frequently done.  Streets are also closed for parades and other events.  It's an inconvenience, but I can be flexible.

Our town square gets blocked off for a lot of things. I am not sure the churches have events but they do participate in every thing that goes on. Saturday is a chili cook off, We had the home coming parade not long ago. 9/11 (first responders celebration) closed down the roads for a few hours. I live in a subdivision that detours for all of that but I don't mind. These things really pull our community together. One church in our town has a youth center across the street from their chapel. It's not at an intersection and they were able to get a crosswalk painted so every Wednesday and Sunday they put out red cones to remind drivers "hey cross walk here". So that does stop traffic in its tracks. It's a little more inconvenient then road blocks because you can't go around it But again it's a slight annoyance since there's only a few kids crossing at any given time, To me, a crosswalk in the middle of main street where there is no intersection is odd.

pretty common around here,course I'm in the bible belt.. doesn't bother me at all. Btw we also have road closures for festivals and such in town too that arent affiliated with a church.

I do not care as long as the correct permits were filed and paid. The Catholic School here does their graduation ceremony in their Church which is on a main road. They have a long standing agreement with the city that traffic both ways gets stopped for 10-20 minutes for the kids to do the cap toss.

I am more annoyed by religious groups being able to rent billboards to push their agenda.

If it's a known big event, no. If it's a special privilege given to the church and not necessary, yes it would.