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#1 Mar 01 2006 at 1:50 AM Rating: Decent
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For Tom Monaghan, the devout Catholic who founded Domino’s Pizza and is now bankrolling most of the initial $400 million cost of the project, Ave Maria is the culmination of a lifetime devoted to spreading his own strict interpretation of Catholicism.


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Though he says nonbelievers are welcome, Monaghan clearly wants the community to embody his conservative values. He controls all the commercial real estate in town (along with his developing partner, Barron Collier Cos.) and is asking pharmacies not to carry contraceptives. If forced to choose between two otherwise comparable drugstores, Barron Collier would favor the one that honored that request, says its president and CEO, Paul Marinelli.



Since he is allowing "heathens" to come and live there, I am sure he will be able to keep everything running in his (and Mel Gibson's) vision. But where do we draw the line? We are not able to have male-only clubs or white-only schools, but it is alright to build a whole town that is catholic-morals-only? What if the KKK wants to build a town?

Also, what if someone's child went out of the town to get brith control? Would the parents be removed from the town?
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#2 Mar 01 2006 at 3:30 AM Rating: Good
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We are not able to have male-only clubs or white-only schools, but it is alright to build a whole town that is catholic-morals-only? What if the KKK wants to build a town?


It's all about perception. A store owner can't ban a person from their store for being black/white/whatever, but they can legally ban someone just because they think the person looks like a thief. His store, his rules. Same goes for the town.

They won't stop anyone with different views from living there, they'll just make those people so unwelcome that they'll leave.
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#3 Mar 01 2006 at 3:34 AM Rating: Good
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The Noid = Satan?

Seriously, I'm not exactly religious, but if he wants to build his own little Jesus-town, more power to him.
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#4 Mar 01 2006 at 9:28 AM Rating: Good
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A whole town dedicated to snobby noisey neighboors? That's a God send! It should clear up our nasty little unGodly neighboorhoods and allow for such sinful things like privacy and freedom of speech.


Yay for Domino's Pizza! Smiley: yippee
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#5 Mar 01 2006 at 9:51 AM Rating: Default
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Isn't the state of Utah comprised entirely of Mormons?
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#6 Mar 01 2006 at 10:04 AM Rating: Good
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I heard about this a year or two ago. I think 60 Minutes did a bit on it.

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But where do we draw the line? We are not able to have male-only clubs or white-only schools, but it is alright to build a whole town that is catholic-morals-only? What if the KKK wants to build a town?


The KKK isn't a religous organization. This isn't based on segregation of race or sex. They are hoping to build a community with common beliefs and values. Perhaps it will bring a stronger sense of community to the town. It will be interesting to see how it turns out.

Of course, it'll only last till someone covets thy neighbors wife and God gets pissed and sends a hurricane to wipe the place out.
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#7 Mar 01 2006 at 10:49 AM Rating: Good
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I heard about this a year or two ago. I think 60 Minutes did a bit on it.

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But where do we draw the line? We are not able to have male-only clubs or white-only schools, but it is alright to build a whole town that is catholic-morals-only? What if the KKK wants to build a town?


The KKK isn't a religous organization. This isn't based on segregation of race or sex. They are hoping to build a community with common beliefs and values. Perhaps it will bring a stronger sense of community to the town. It will be interesting to see how it turns out.

Of course, it'll only last till someone covets thy neighbors wife and God gets pissed and sends a hurricane to wipe the place out.


Whatever happened to just good old fashioned plagues to just wipe out a population? Maybe some Leprosy or Necrotizing Fasciitis. Something that would take a nice long time to feel out and such before you croak so that there'd be time enough for Hallmark to come up with a nice card for what's happening that you could place over your mantle like you cared about it when friends come over.
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#8 Mar 01 2006 at 12:16 PM Rating: Good
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I like the concept of private clubs, organizations, and towns. If he owns all the commercial land, he can dictate who it is that does business there.

I would have a problem if he moved into an existing city and started railing at the sodomites, but if it's entirely his place, I'd say there's no issue.

You have to think of this as being more like a public service than a threat to society. Let all the psycho christian types gather in their town (thinking Kane from Poltergeist here, `God is in his Hooo-ly tem-ple`). Then just update the local maps to say "here be dragons" and avoid the place entirely.
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#9 Mar 01 2006 at 12:33 PM Rating: Decent
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Then just update the local maps to say "here be dragons" and avoid the place entirely.


Classic.
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#10 Mar 01 2006 at 1:00 PM Rating: Decent
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The Noid = Satan?

Seriously, I'm not exactly religious, but if he wants to build his own little Jesus-town, more power to him.

Fine by me! Makes it easier to contain the twits - just build a wall around them. Hell, they got pizza, they won't starve or anything.
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#11 Mar 01 2006 at 1:33 PM Rating: Good
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Of course, it'll only last till someone covets thy neighbors wife and God gets pissed and sends a hurricane to wipe the place out.



...or when random kids start growing up to be heathens. Smiley: laugh I wonder if it's possible to get excommunicated from that town?
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#12 Mar 01 2006 at 2:11 PM Rating: Good
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This gives me an idea. I will start a town that only allows motorcycles for personal transportation and requires all the citizens to belong to the city biker club. All businesses would be limited to brothels and bars, who would sell their drinks at $1.50 / beer and $2.50 for a high ball.

I'd call it Hell's playground and it would be located 2 miles from the aforementioned Christian town. It would be swell.
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#13 Mar 01 2006 at 3:25 PM Rating: Good
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This gives me an idea. I will start a town that only allows motorcycles for personal transportation and requires all the citizens to belong to the city biker club. All businesses would be limited to brothels and bars, who would sell their drinks at $1.50 / beer and $2.50 for a high ball.

I'd call it Hell's playground and it would be located 2 miles from the aforementioned Christian town. It would be swell.



I'ld move there.
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Elderon the Wise wrote:
This gives me an idea. I will start a town that only allows motorcycles for personal transportation and requires all the citizens to belong to the city biker club. All businesses would be limited to brothels and bars, who would sell their drinks at $1.50 / beer and $2.50 for a high ball.

I'd call it Hell's playground and it would be located 2 miles from the aforementioned Christian town. It would be swell.



I'ld move there.


I'd make a killing running a shuttle service late at night between the 2 towns.
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