[Howlin]

he gave up his church for a bike path

Explain, please.

[Diddle E. Squat]

There was a thread in the last day or two discussing Dean, and in the article it mentioned that Dean had been attending a Presbyterian(? not sure, but it was a mainline denomination) church, but left that denomination because of a disagreement over a bike trail. Really.

[shrinkermd]

"he gave up his church for a bike path Explain, please

Answer below:

"Dean's own conversion to Congregationalism was a more mundane political affair. He'd been christened as a Catholic and was raised Episcopalian. But he converted to the local Vermont religion as a consequence of his battle to make over the shoreline. "I had a big fight with a local Episcopal church about 25 years ago over the bike path," he told This Week with George Stephanopoulos in September. "We were trying to get the bike path built. They had control of a mile and a half of railroad bed, and they decided they would pursue a property-rights suit to refuse to allow the bike path to be developed." Dean eventually talked church leaders out of the lawsuit, recalls Sharp, but other railroad neighbors refused to budge and litigated the case all the way to U.S. Supreme Court.

From Independents for Dean