Conservative Christian groups seeking to galvanize support for a battle over a Supreme Court nomination are rallying around the unlikely symbol of a mega-church in Los Alamitos, Calif., one of a handful of houses of worship that have tangled with towns over the use of eminent domain to take their properties.
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When I lived in Texas, there was a huge mega-church called Fellowship Church that my wife and I sometimes attended. They bought a lot of land in the middle of nowhere. A few years later, Mills Corp. wanted to build Grapevine Mills Mall across the highway. Other complimentary businesses bought up land around it, and a large portion of the land for those other businesses was bought from Fellowship Church. It funded the church's growth for a very long time, because of that, the church was able to bring a lot of previously unchurched people to Christ, snatching them from the fires of hell.
Nice to know that if it happened today, that land could have just been seized by the local township for a pittance of what the church was able to sell it for.
This decision by the supreme court makes me sick. Hopefully some of the more liberal justices like Ginsburg, Stevens, Soutor, or Bryer will leave durring Bush's watch, and he will stick to his guns and appoint justices like Scalia and Thomas! Just imagine how much better off the country would be!
I know what you mean. In the case in Texas the church DECIDED to sell and was not forced to do so.
I'm thinking the exact spot where the Supreme Court building now stands would be a great place for a car wash. Let me make some phone calls and see if I can make it happen.
I wonder if they could enact eminent domain if someone wanted to sell, but the developer didn't like the price. Or if they would even try to approach the person/business/church first or just go right for the eminent domain claim to get a major discount.
Such an unamerican can of worms.
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