Posted on 02/10/2018 10:37:21 PM PST by TBP
Tucked away in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, somewhere along the winding roads that hug Great Lakes shores, is an idyllic town named Bay View. For more than a century, generations of “Bay Viewers” have congregated here to share in summer activities.
What started out as a modest camping ground for Methodist families 140 years ago has quietly developed into a stunning vacation spot for people who can afford the upkeep of a second home. Streets named Moss, Fern and Maple are dotted with impeccably maintained century-old gingerbread cottages. Over the horizon, residents can watch lifelong friends sail their boats across the water.
But this paradise is not open to all.
In Bay View, only practicing Christians are allowed to buy houses, or even inherit them.
Prospective homeowners, according to a bylaw introduced in 1947 and strengthened in 1986, are required to produce evidence of their faith by providing among other things a letter from a Christian minister testifying to their active participation in a church.
Last summer, a dozen current and former resident members filed a federal lawsuit against the town, its ruling Bay View Association and a real estate company, claiming the Christian litmus test was illegal and unconstitutional.
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No Muslims allowed. Don’t tell the liberals, they’ll try to pack the town with Jihadists just out of spite.
Anf there is a gated community in Mountain View California where only Jews can buy homes.
ditto in many places in upstate NY
Where?
I’d love to hear some crime stats.
I’ll bet crime is almost non-existent there.
Bay View is located just outside the beautiful resort town of Petoskey, located on Little Traverse Bay, on northern Lake Michigan.U.S.31 passes through it on it’s way to Mackinaw City. I attended college in Petoskey 40 years ago. By the way; The actor Hal Smith, who played Otis Campbell on the Andy Griffith Show was born in Petoskey.
How is this different from a muslim only “no go zone”?
>>I’ll bet crime is almost non-existent there.
“As McGee and I make our way through the streets, the few, mostly retired residents who are still here after Labor Day shout out warm greetings.”
Few full time residents. Many people seem to use it as a second home seasonally.
Can non-Amish buy into Amish farmlands without shunning?
It began as a Methodist campground.
A morality clause was stated.
Over time practicing religious affiliation was added.
One man who is part of the suit has a Jewish wife and children. He calls himself “culturally Christian”. What’s that, sounds like something Obama would use to dodge the matter in appealing to the masses. Sounds to me like an agnostic who isn’t being hounded to leave his home. Just a stipulation against who it is sold to. Is his wife’s name also on the deed (community property)?
While it is pitched as a Christian preserve, it doesn’t sound like that tradition is being adhered to anyhow.
Can the Knights of Columbus and Oddfellows lodges be next on the vanishing landscape? A graying membership and a waning tradition of faith and community in America.
The biggest looming “threat” to the old ways is if it becomes a muslim “preserve”. I wonder if the ACLU would be as interested in seeing it multicultural at that point.
When was the last time a Amish landholder sold his land ?
LOL
I meant the one in Mountain View..
[[How is this different from a muslim only “no go zone”?]]
You weon’t be stabbed, blown up or shot or raped if you do go there=- That’s how it’s different
What are the chances that law officers are afraid to go there compared to Muslim no-go zones?
law officers don’t go to “no go zones”. Globally they are noted as ceded territory.
We look at Afghanistan and how tribalism gave the Taliban and Al-Qaeda strongholds in some areas.
It’s happening in the West as well and the colonies are foreign funded. Saudis and others export hate.
Funny you would say that. If this can be, why not a community which would allow only rinos, pachyderms, or asses?
If I recall correctly, shunning (in their dialect: Meidung) is reserved for Apostates (i.e., for those who were once Amish but - due to their worldly ways - have been excluded from the community).
However, people who never were Amish - so-called "Englische" - are treated hospitably.
Regards,
What if you have women coming and going at all hours? :)
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