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Catholic Land!
Posted: 3/1/2006, 10:51 pm
by happening fish
By Brian Skoloff
ASSOCIATED PRESS
10:46 a.m. March 1, 2006
NAPLES, Fla.- If Domino's Pizza founder Thomas S. Monaghan has his way, a new town being built in Florida will be governed according to strict Roman Catholic principles, with no place to get an abortion, pornography or birth control.
The pizza magnate is bankrolling the project with at least $250 million and calls it "God's will."
Civil libertarians say the plan is unconstitutional and are threatening to sue.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nati ... ctown.html
Posted: 3/1/2006, 10:56 pm
by Hope
WHAT.
Posted: 3/1/2006, 10:58 pm
by Johnny
No porn? Well thats just not fun!
Posted: 3/1/2006, 10:59 pm
by Hope
i cant believe someone even came up with this idea.
Posted: 3/2/2006, 12:28 am
by closeyoureyes
I don't see the harm in it. You choose to live there, so if you dislike it, leave, if you like it, don't!
Posted: 3/2/2006, 12:39 pm
by magicseamonkey
so they're banning the internet?
Posted: 3/2/2006, 4:36 pm
by Bandalero
as a catholic, i want to live there.
and make porn, catholic porn. in my catholic house, in my catholic town.
sinead, you up for that? that would rule!
Posted: 3/3/2006, 11:49 am
by I AM ME
I agree with Sinead
Basically it's your choice to live there, somewhere I definatly wouldn't want to live, but that's why I won't.
It does bother me though how close it is to Islmaic extremism, although I'm sure tons of people will argue it's completely diffrent. How do you think this idea would go over if it was the exact same format but Islamic instead of Christian (tomato/tomahto)?
I'd be intrested to see the rate of unplanned pregnancies (marriages), and sexually transmitted disease in the town after a few decades. After all kids are gonna be kids eventually, and some of them are gonna have sex despite their faith, which could be tricky in a town with no protection.
Posted: 3/3/2006, 12:52 pm
by Random Name
Ultimately, you can't stop an idea. Once people know about abortion and birth control, its not going to go away. If people want to live in a place that doesn't support that, fine. It really doesn't impact the rest of the world. There are already pleanty of communities across North America that essentially have the same principles anyway, they just arn't formal.
Posted: 3/3/2006, 1:27 pm
by happening fish
I thought America was meant to be based on religious freedom. Various denominations can't just go around claiming chunks of land for themselves just because one of them's stacked from making pizzas.
Posted: 3/6/2006, 2:57 pm
by I AM ME
I'd also like to add someone should check up on Jefferson's grave and make sure it's still intact. Jefferson must be spinning wildly.
People have the freedom to do whatever they want as long as it doesn't hurt anyone as far as I'm concerned though. Although i don't agree with this sort of thing at all.
Posted: 3/6/2006, 6:10 pm
by closeyoureyes
I'm Catholic but I wouldn't live in Catholic Land. Cept on my trips to see Reno, and make videos for catholic currency.
Posted: 3/6/2006, 6:47 pm
by beautiful liar
so long as god's will involves yummy domino's pizza it's fine by me
...the thing i'd worry most about is the education there - children being brought up with fundamentalist views, in a closed environment without access to other ideas, and knowledge.
however, people will raise their children as they see fit, and there's not much others can do to intervene no matter where they live.
if they want to live in a conclave, well i suppose that's their perrogative. however, denying others the right to live there (why they would want to is beyond me) is not. at least they arent trying to convert an existing settlement.
Posted: 3/6/2006, 7:17 pm
by closeyoureyes
Kids who go to public school could still be educated in their homes(and be more affected) by their religious teachings.
Alot of the catholic church is okay though so
Posted: 3/6/2006, 7:48 pm
by bovine
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Posted: 3/6/2006, 8:33 pm
by beautiful liar
beautiful liar wrote:however, people will raise their children as they see fit, and there's not much others can do to intervene no matter where they live.
closeyoureyes wrote:Kids who go to public school could still be educated in their homes(and be more affected) by their religious teachings.
exactly
Posted: 3/6/2006, 10:16 pm
by closeyoureyes
=
seeing eye to eye
Posted: 3/6/2006, 11:33 pm
by I AM ME
Wow
We all half agree on something. Good for us.
Just to stir up shit though, what do you guys think would happen if the exact same thing were to happen except with a township run by Islamic beliefs instead?
Posted: 3/6/2006, 11:46 pm
by saman
bush'd bomb it in the name of the war on terror
Posted: 3/6/2006, 11:49 pm
by I AM ME
Something along those lines
Most people now equate "Terror" with "Islam". Of course that only proves their own ignorance to an entire religion. One that happens to be quite close to Christianity. Both being children of Judaism.