N.H. town defeated in court in attempt to punish St. Benedict Center for stand on abortion and homosexuality

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A New Hampshire town used zoning restictions to keep the St. Benedict Center from finishing its buldings. Town officials had said the views of the center on such matters as abortion and homosexuality were “abhorrent.” A judge awarded the center 1.5 million dollars in one of the largest zoning settlements ever, and rebuked the town for dealing with a church in this way, an event ignored by the media.
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I wonder how the tax payers are feeling? 1.5 million dollars, that’s a lot.

Not suprised if the media are ignoring it.
 
This has been the Redshirts’ standard m.o. for 40+ years: totally circumvent the constitutional process by using the courts to ram their putrid agenda down our throats. Where I live, several years back, a pro-life clinic advertising in the abortion section of the yellow pages was sued into extinction by Planned Barrenhood, who claimed that the clinic had “no right” to be listed under the abortion heading. :mad:
 
The decision was a correct one, but it might be worth mentioning that the St. Benedict Center is a Feenyite church and is not in communion with Rome.
“The St. Benedict Center has no relationship with the Diocese of Manchester, and Bishop [John B.] McCormack has not given them permission to do ministry in New Hampshire,” said Diane Murphy Quinlan, the diocese’s vice chancellor. “They are not in union with the church.”
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Each Sunday, Mass at the Saint Benedict Center is followed by brunch and then a lecture. On a recent Sunday, Brother Andre Marie stood in front of a microphone and delivered a lengthy, rambling talk attempting to refute a claim by a Catholic apologist, Karl Keating, that Feeney was an anti-Semite. Feeney’s denunciations of Jews during his mid-20th-century preaching on Boston Common are indisputable, but Brother Andre argued that Feeney was baited into using “sharp language” by Jewish hecklers.
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boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/02/22/cherishing_an_older_catholicism/

I wonder if the town’s opposition to the church, wasn’t based more on the church’s anti-Semitism than its opposition to abortion and homosexuality.
 
One reason for taking notice of this–if a local government can try to punish them for their stand on abortion and homosexuality, it may happen next to us too where we live. Them yesterday, us tomorrow.
 
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