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Cake day: July 15th, 2023

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  • A neighborhood family, concerned that the project would exacerbate traffic problems, successfully challenged the zoning board’s decision in state court. The family also opposed the group’s Supreme Court petition, arguing there is no basis for the nation’s highest court to intervene in the local zoning dispute.

    The opponents say the church group knew that zoning ordinances barred it from building the shrine on neighboring residential land when it acquired the property. The opponents also argue that the group hasn’t demonstrated why it couldn’t build the shrine on church land.

    Religious freedom doesn’t allow you to make everything else worse. This seems exactly like the kind of thing that should be shut down.