Or don't they need that excuse when obviously any excuse will do?

Land of the free. LOL

...that's their ticket to ride.

what kinda fucking oxymoran is that?!

We have a mega-church building a branch down the street from us, the traffic is going to be hideous, and they've already forced a small restaurant my husband and I really liked out of business by buying the building they rented and hiking up the rent (I think the crowd wasn't upper-crust enough).

I know, they're "Christian" and considered good no matter what, not like those "other guys".

Next thing you know, Sharia law is going to be implemented!

And, share many of the same patriarchs, etc.

This sounds like out and out discrimination to me. I remember the news stories when this first started.

intolerance and bigotry, that's all it is.

Murfreesboro is about 30 minutes south and 25 years in the past from here. Nashville is fine, we even have a mosque in our very popular 12South area. But, outside of Nashville, forget it. Our primarily Republican state congress, it has been Democrats in the past, have passed egregious anti-gay legislation, etc. I tell people, the South may be polite, but they aren't very nice...especially if you are different. When I leave Nashville, it is to go to another state/country. I don't travel here.

A Federal judge will put this to rest..it will be finished. I just pray for their safety.

...I'm from New York City and we've got loads of closed minded people. Educated and not. Religion and prejudice has everything to do with it.

Is his clerkkk named Hitler?

The opponents of the mosque launched a very broad legal attack, based mostly on anti muslim hatred. As is the norm for such suits, they threw in everything including procedural claims. ***ALL*** were rejected by the court except for a procedural technicality that can be remedied at the next planning commission meeting. There is nothing to indicate that the planning commission change the prior vote.

There are also prior threads on DU about this.

Construction has not been "halted." The Chancellor's ruling, which is procedural, allows the city planners to order construction stopped. That has not happened as of this moment.

No doubt about it: there were some ugly, bigoted people who launched this whole business. I know: I live here (Nashville). But there's not really a reason to freak out over this...yet.

my state is not the only ignorant state around full of stupid bigots. I thought for a long time that NC had the market on the "Stupids."

.. or the enemies of freedom have won.

The anti-Muslim groups went batshit crazy.

At one meeting a woman held up a big sign that said "No Jesus, Know Terrorism."

The mosque is up and running, no problems at all.

They have deep pockets and have been greasing palms for awhile now.

Honestly, they should invite the neighbors to Saudi Arabia in an open forum discussion over the problem of practicing what they preach