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From: kjm@ut-ngp.UUCP
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Subject: Re: An Example Of "Christian" Xenophobia
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Date: Mon, 10-Jun-85 00:43:04 EDT
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From: amra@ihlpa.UUCP (s. aldrich) in <296@ihlpa.UUCP>:
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>[...]
>
> Schiller said the partnership of Indian doctors will develop that as a 
>money-making venture, separate of the non-profit organization developing
>the temple. The two projects are part of the same annexation because the
>same partnership owns all 70 acres, Schiller said.

This case is utterly crystal-clear.  The people who own the land have
the right to build on it.

>[...]
>
> Others were concerned about the temple and commercial development tieing
>up traffic along Randall Road, and the possibility that bringing city
>services to the development would cost taxpayers.

This problem (of taxpayers paying for growth) occurs under any 
collectivist form of government, whether totalitarian or democratic.

>[...]
> But Erickson, after questioning by Mayor David Pierce, said the developers
>are paying to build the sewer and water facilities and the roads, which they
>will later dedicate to the city. He said the developers also are paying to
>bring the city utilities to their property.

Sounds like there isn't much rational objection to be made, after all.

>         Steve Aldrich (ihnp4!ihlpa!amra)

The religious objections voiced by various christianoids in the
above account are noise.  No religion that I know of has objective
validity, and thus no religious considerations should be heard by
City Councils, etc.

--
The above viewpoints are mine.  They are unrelated to
those of anyone else, including my cats and my employer.

Ken Montgomery  "Shredder-of-hapless-smurfs"
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