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Monaghan could set up his Ave Maria town much like Disney established its town, called Celebration, with enough controls to shape it as he would like. For instance, a drug store might have to agree not to stock birth control pills or abortifacients before being able to sign a lease to open a store. A video store might have to agree not to rent or sell R and X rated movies, or anti-Catholic and anti-Christian movies.

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.