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1 posted on 05/02/2018 9:12:40 AM PDT by Faith Presses On
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Also:

http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2018/april/us-supreme-court-will-not-review-case-of-christian-school-banned-from-michigan-township

The secular media has covered this dispute in the past, but I don’t see any articles on this Supreme Court move.


2 posted on 05/02/2018 9:13:50 AM PDT by Faith Presses On (Above all, politics should serve the Great Commission, "preparing the way for the Lord.")
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Zoning laws are of themselves of questionable Constitutionality.


3 posted on 05/02/2018 9:15:55 AM PDT by mbarker12474
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the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled it isn’t a burden on religious exercise for a “city to use its zoning laws to prevent a religious school, church, synagogue, or mosque from moving into town.

Why do I think if this were a mosque, this case would have turned out very differently?

5 posted on 05/02/2018 9:18:19 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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There are only three decent ones on the court.
We have to wait for more.


6 posted on 05/02/2018 9:18:22 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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Maybe this will provide a precedent for towns to keep out mosques and madrassas


7 posted on 05/02/2018 9:18:41 AM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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" . . . the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled it isn’t a burden on religious exercise for a “city to use its zoning laws to prevent a religious school, church, synagogue, or mosque from moving into town.”

Was the ordinance specifically directed against religious institutions, or against any non-residential applicant, such as a supermarket, which might generate unwanted traffic or intrude into a residential community? If the former, it would seem to be on shaky constitutional grounds.
11 posted on 05/02/2018 9:33:20 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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WND is lying, zoning wasn’t changed to block the school. The school applies for a special use permit, and was denied due to traffic concerns. The school might be justified in their complaint, but there no reason to overblow this story, which is just small town nimby politics, not part of some greater narrative of Christian oppression.


12 posted on 05/02/2018 9:51:29 AM PDT by Wayne07
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Imagine zoning prohibited a muslim mosque.


13 posted on 05/02/2018 9:53:24 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (For what profits a man if he gains the world but loses his soul?)
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[[For a case to be heard, it must have the support of at least four justices.]]

What is this rumor i’ve heard that our supreme court is now conservative? The case couldn’t find 4 justices to agree to hear the case?


14 posted on 05/02/2018 9:56:05 AM PDT by Bob434
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If this were about a Mosque.......


18 posted on 05/02/2018 10:11:37 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE
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The picture is not pretty and, like all other such short-sighted historical efforts, will fail.

So-called "progressives" of both Parties in recent times, portray themselves as the "intellectual" elite, although they may be totally bereft of any real knowledge or understanding of the great ideas which were the seedbed of Ameria's successful 200-year experiment in liberty.

Today's so-called "progressives," with all of their domination of academia and Far Left politics, seem to fit into a category described in an essay by T.S. Eliot on Virgil:

"In our time, when men seem more than ever to confuse wisdom with knowledge and knowledge with information and to try to solve the problems of life in terms of engineering, there is coming into existence a new kind of provincialism which perhaps deserves a new name. It is a provincialism not of space but of time--one for which history is merely a chronicle of human devices which have served their turn and have been scrapped, one for which the world is the property solely of the living, a property in which the dead hold no share."(Bold added for emphasis)

Without intellectual anchoring in the enduring ideas which provided the philosophical foundation of America's Declaration of Independence and Constitution, their vain imaginations of superiority only expose their limited world view.

Yet, the America which rose from obscurity to greatness, from crude hoes and axes to putting a man on the moon, and from oppression by King George to a symbol of liberty for millions all over the world--that America provides shelter for them, even as they attempt to "change" her into something unimagined by the Founders, and ungrounded in Constitutional principles.

If they are allowed to succeed in their own little provincial experiment, their posterity never will know the "blessings of Liberty" proclaimed by the Preamble to America's Constitution.

See excerpts: The Anvil that Has Worn Out Many Hammers

By Editorial Staff
Published December 22, 2007

Nineteenth century writer H.L. Hastings once forcibly illustrated the unique way in which the Bible has withstood the attacks of skepticism:

“When the French monarch proposed the persecution of Christians in his dominion, an old statesman and warrior said to him, ‘Sire, the church of God is an anvil that has worn out many hammers.’ So the hammers of infidels have been pecking away at this book for ages, but the hammers are worn out, and the anvil still endures. If this book had not been the book of God, men would have destroyed it long ago. Emperors and popes, kings and priests, princes and rulers have all tried their hand at it; they die and the book still lives.”"(End excerpt)

Now, read an excerpt from John Quincy Adams's Jubilee Address, delivered in April 1839, in New York City, which recaps the real history of the founding of America and the framing of its Constitution:

Excerpts: “The motive for the Declaration of Independence was on its face avowed to be "a decent respect for the opinions of mankind." Its purpose to declare the causes which impelled the people of the English colonies on the continent of North America, to separate themselves from the political community of the British nation. They declare only, the causes of their separation, but they announce at the same time their assumption of the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, among the powers of the earth.

“Thus their first movement is to recognize and appeal to the laws of nature and to nature's God, for their right to assume the attributes of sovereign power as an independent nation.

“The causes of their necessary separation, for they begin and end by declaring it necessary, alleged in the Declaration, are all founded on the same laws of nature and of nature's God - and hence as preliminary to the enumeration of the causes of separation, they set forth as self-evident truths, the rights of individual man, by the laws of nature and of nature's God, to life, to liberty, to the pursuit of happiness. That all men are created equal. That to secure the rights of life, liberty and the pursuits of happiness, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. All this is by the laws of nature and of nature's God, and of course presupposes the existence of a God, the moral ruler of the universe, and a rule of right and wrong, of just and unjust, binding upon man, preceding all institutions of human society and of government. It avers, also, that governments are instituted to secure these rights of nature and of nature's God, and that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of those ends, it is the right of THE PEOPLE to alter, or to abolish it, and to institute a new government - to throw off a government degenerating into despotism, and to provide new guards for their future security. They proceed then to say that such was then the situation of the Colonies, and such the necessity which constrained them to alter their former systems of government.”


19 posted on 05/02/2018 10:11:54 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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And if it was a mosque? I think the decision is good just for that reason.


20 posted on 05/02/2018 10:12:31 AM PDT by Harpotoo
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Patriots are reminded that, in addition to having the power to impeach and remove activist justices from the bench, Congress also has the 14th Amendment power to make punitive laws to deal with state actors who abridge constitutionally enumerated freedoms. 

H O W E V E R …

Since we’re still stuck with a corrupt, post-17th Amendment (17A) ratification Congress left over from the lawless Obama Administration, we can predict that Congress will not lift a finger to either remove justices who ignore constitutionally enumerated protections, or make punitive laws to deal with state actors who likewise abridge constitutionally enumerated rights.

So to resolve unconstitutional abridgment of constitutionally enumerated rights by activist state actors, patriots in all states need to do the following.

Patriots need to finish the job that they started when they elected Trump president.

More specifically, patriots now need to be making sure that there are plenty of Trump-supporting patriots on the 2018 primary ballots who will be willing to make punitive laws to discourage state actors from abridging constitutionally enumerated protections.

Patriots then need to pink-slip career lawmakers by sending patriot candidate lawmakers to DC on election day.

And until the states repeal 17A, as evidenced by concerns about the integrity of the outcome of Alabama's and Pennsylvania's special elections, patriot candidates need to win elections by a large enough margin to compensate for possible deep state ballot box fraud, associated MSM scare tactics, and interference from people like Soros.

Hacking Democracy - The Hack

25 posted on 05/02/2018 10:33:54 AM PDT by Amendment10
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You would think with the state of failing public schools they would welcome an alternative for their citizens and for the children!

5/1/18

“65% of Public School 8th Graders Not Proficient in Reading; 67% Not Proficient in Math”

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/65-public-school-8th-graders-not-proficient-reading-67-not-proficient


26 posted on 05/02/2018 11:11:32 AM PDT by 444Flyer (John 3)
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Is this the second failure of Gorsuch, already?


27 posted on 05/02/2018 11:27:18 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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Voters can cure this nonsense if they wish. This school should locate just beyond the city limits and continue Gods work


28 posted on 05/02/2018 11:36:04 AM PDT by ontap
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it isn’t a burden on religious exercise for a “city to use its zoning laws to prevent a religious school, church, synagogue, or mosque from moving into town.”

Yeah, until it's a mosque involved. Then it's discrimination.

33 posted on 05/02/2018 12:31:12 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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