I don't think the interview explained much.
Looking for more info, all I came across was this:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11434439/site/newsweek/
Which still doesn't explain much about the legalities.
Is it privately-owned property that he's renting out, or is it set up like condominiums or a commune? If so, there shouldn't be a problem with it, should there?
Also, I remember hearing about a "town" Disney built in Florida that is entirely controlled by Disney.
Here's the "town" Disney owned, Celebration:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebration,_Florida
It's compared to another Florida town called Seaside.
The ACLU has little stake in harassing Mormon dominated small towns in rural Utah or Amish and Mennonite dominated towns in rural Pennsylvania, where social pressure, rather than law, is the main enforcer of community standards. They are not interested in a place like St. Mary's, Kansas, a community dominated by "rad-trad" Catholics. Little clusters of religious people in rural areas will be dealt with in due time. In the Soviet Union, not until well into Stalin's era, well over a decade after the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War, were remote nomadic herdsmen socialized and Siberian shamanism repressed.
What Monaghan is apparently doing is challenging radical secularism imposed by the Federal courts with his Ave Maria community, not in some backwater, but in a favored resort destination. The ACLU, as a major architect of the de-Christianization of America, has a major stake in answering this challenge. Hopefully, the former pizza tycoon will have his community structured in such a way that it will be protected from lawsuits and other legal action.