Church gets grant to build rec center

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WASHINGTON - A Canton church will receive $750,000 in federal funding to help build an estimated $2 million recreation center in Plain Township that church officials and Rep. Ralph Regula say will benefit the community.
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First Christian Church of Canton requested the funding from Regula, R-Bethlehem Township. The 17-term lawmaker reserved the funding in a $138 billion spending bill signed into law by President Bush last month.
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The church plans to build the community recreation center at the Edgewood Golf Course, which it bought in 2002. It began construction of a new sanctuary on the 114-acre property in September.
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But at least one potential collaborator in the enterprise, the YMCA of Central Stark County, is unsure whether the facility is needed.
Tim Shetzer, chief executive officer of the YMCA, said Plain Township is surrounded by four YMCAs — in North Canton, Canton, Louisville and Hartville — that are minutes away from the township. Thousands of Plain Township residents belong to these YMCAs, he said.

keep it heated in the winter, cool in the summer, employ staff. muther fuckers. Non-profit my arse!

Take our tax moneys and pour them into fantasy cults that believe in the supernatural and use this opulence to prove god's existence. How could we build such splendid structures unless there was a big sky daddy? Destroy the social safety net and gush public moneys at institutions that leech off the rest of us, not having to pay taxes, and use their wealth to support one political party to the detriment of the rest of society.

If you don't believe in our version of magic, you don't deserve to exist, and you should be happy you're still allowed citizenship. This is deeply disgusting.

Religion is not "good". At best, it's a wash, but by many criteria, it's a detriment to society. Certainly, using public monies to sustain intolerant guesses is not good for most of the public.

Oh, did I mention that this is ILLEGAL and against the spirit and letter of the laws upon which this country was founded? Sorry; I must've forgotten.

http://www.fcccanton.org/

It looks like they are building a country club rather than a church. Praise the Lord! They got a government grant. This is so wrong.

AKA: Brainwashing for Stepford Wives and Stepford Hubbies.

Fine, let them believe whatever they like. But let them do so on their own goddamned dime!

Seriously: my tax dollars are buying wingnut Christians their rec centers now?

The ACLU needs to stop this unconstitutional mischief ASAP. Let the superstitious build their own freaking playhouses.

This in a country where families are homeless!

Yep, that's our tax dollars at work. Why don't we plan a big DU get together there when it's finished.