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The Harrison Press

Jehovah may be frowning
Written by Joe Awad
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 3:08 PM

They did it.
I had great hope the Jehovah’s Witnesses would not play dirty, but they did. A lawsuit against Harrison was inevitable over conflicting philosophies regarding the purpose of the Joint Economic Development District.
The JWs, backed by county commissioners, contend they have a legal right to build an assembly hall in the JEDD. The city contends they don’t because the JEDD’s purpose is to house industry and commercial enterprises that produce income tax and property tax revenue.
The hall is exempt from property tax because it is a church. And there would be no income tax to speak of because a lone groundskeeper, and perhaps his family, would live on the property.

All chips in
But they did it. The JWs played the religious discrimination card.
General allegation No. 25 reads: Upon information and belief, the respondents have colluded to block the development of the Jehovah’s Witnesses Assembly Hall because of religious discrimination.
In all the arguments before various county boards, during council meetings, economic development meetings, and JEDD meetings, city officials demonstrably stated the objection to a house of prayer in the JEDD is based totally on economic reasoning and has nothing to do with the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ faith.
If Mayor Joel McGuire said it once, he said it 50 times, that religious beliefs have nothing - absolutely nothing - to do with the objection.

Follow the money
As most things in life, this battle is about money. Property owner Dry Fork Farms is anxious to sell its property inside the JEDD to profit, and the JWs are anxious to own valuable land in an economic district.
Meanwhile, the city wants businesses that yield tax income. City officials also want businesses that attract other tax-yielding businesses. A worship hall is counterintuitive to that position.
The JWs have a track record of buying and eventually selling prime property for profit. Nothing wrong with that, but building a worship center in an industrial park is obnoxious.
Yet, interpretation of a federal law, called the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, falls on the side of the Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Absurd law
Through RLUIPA, enacted in 2000, Congress has expanded religious accommodations to restricting the zoning power of municipalities.
RLUIPA, as it is grossly applied, gives religious landowners special rights to challenge land use laws that secular organizations do not have.
Even if a zoning law is void of discrimination, courts scrutinize municipal regulations throughout the country. That, too, is odious, and represents the overreach of federal government into the affairs of municipalities.
The JWs contend they are being discriminated against because the city won’t provide sewer services for the planned assembly hall.
The JW brass obviously knew the issue would not be resolved without a legal battle, but it must prove that turning down a potential customer is a zoning issue.
There is nothing preventing the faith-based organization from installing a septic system.
The Jehovah’s Witnesses’ other arguments may be tenable. The demand for a yes or no answer regarding their filed petition for sewer makes sense.
No doubt, the city is biding its time. Officials are in no hurry to accommodate what they don’t want.
But the religious discrimination card - really?

Joe Awad is editor of The Harrison Press.

The JWs contend they are being discriminated against because the city won’t provide sewer services for the planned assembly hall.

There is nothing preventing the faith-based organization from installing a septic system.
The Jehovah’s Witnesses’ other arguments may be tenable. The demand for a yes or no answer regarding their filed petition for sewer makes sense.

No doubt, the city is biding its time. Officials are in no hurry to accommodate what they don’t want.

The WTB and KRAP SOCIETY IS BEING DISCRIMINATED AGAINST/PERSEKU-SHUN BECAUSE OF THEIR KRAP NOT GOING DOWN THE SEWER SYSTEM EFFICENTLY ENOUGH. LOLOLOL!

OUTLAW, PLEASE, DO THE HONORS..............sKally

The JWs contend they are being discriminated against because the city won’t provide sewer services for the planned assembly hall.

Let them DROWN in their own excrement.....VillageGirl..

I had great hope the Jehovah’s Witnesses would not play dirty, but they did.

Follow the money
As most things in life, this battle is about money. Property owner Dry Fork Farms is anxious to sell its property inside the JEDD to profit, and the JWs are anxious to own valuable land in an economic district.

The JWs have a track record of buying and eventually selling prime property for profit. Nothing wrong with that, but building a worship center in an industrial park is obnoxious.

This is a good thread to talk about the real problem..
This is all from the OP..

Q: Whats wrong with those statements?
A: The Wrong group of people are being blamed..

The WBT$ and JW`s are not One and the Same..
JW`s don`t understand that..
They think JW`s and the WBT$ are all one big Happy Family..
The Truth is..
WBT$ =Master JW`s=Slaves
WBT$/Master does something wrong.....JW`s/Slaves get the Beating..

The WBT$ consoles JW`s by telling them they`re being persecuted for Jehovah..
Instead of thanking JW`s for taking the blame the WBT$ should be getting..
The WBT$ is Playing everyone,from JW`s all the way to Government Officials..
Why is it nobody notices?

If you look at the title of my thread..
I wrote..
Community Recongnises WatchTower Real Estate Scam...
Not..
Community Recongnises Jehovah`s Witnesses Real Estate Scam...
Even though the story is about a JW Real Estate Scam..

If you want to understand the WBT$..
You can`t group the WBT$ And JWs together as Equals..Or..One and the Same
Nothing could be further from the Truth..

........................................OUTLAW