[anniegetyourgun]

So true. Last year our own county council tried to pass a pre-emptive law to limit the size (sq. footage) of schools and churches in the county. They argued it was in keeping with growth management laws in the state. Of course, they claimed it had nothing to do with limited the free exercise of religious organizations. But that was revealed as a lie since their own ordinance proposed to exempt public schools.

Needless to say, the people arose (Catholics, Muslims, Baptists, Lutherans, Jewish day schools, etc.) and religious leaders joined forces to beat the ordinance back. At one point the County Executive was being quite arrogant and threatening. In the end, the people prevailed and the eco-nazis and God-haters lost. And to seal the deal, a wonderful conservative councilman offered up a new ordinance (with a referendum to the ballot if not passed) reiterating the county's obligation to NEVER restrict the free exercise of religion. The council refused to pass it so it went to a vote of the people of the county, who quickly passed it.

It takes much time and effort to stop the pompous jerks at these lower levels of government. Often, it takes much time from work, family, other civic duties, etc. of conservatives working in coalition. But, the alternative is to be stomped on, walked over, and have no voice. I'll take the former, everytime!

[George from New England]

Hugh Hewitt has been on this from the get-go. KRLA is the flagship station of his syndicated radio show. Costco has been announced that they will not come in until this is settled to the satisfaction of the church.

[ImphClinton]

The church claims they were in contact with the city from the time they started to put the property together. Just what land is zoned for churches??? Little that I have heard of. They usually buy land and get a variance for the church. Ocasionally a subdivision will get some land zoned for churches / businesses. Thus most chruches are built on comercialally zoned land.

Large churches depend on visiable plots of land. They want a great location. A church in Denver had a similar problem. It went to court and the church won. Seems this was in 1997 or so. It was a large chruch that bought a shoping center. The city wanted sales tax revenue instead.

[elcaudillo]

It's really refreshing to see those Muslims joining in with the infidels!