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In reply to the discussion: Town bans pagan temple after finding out its not Christian [View all]Hestia
(3,818 posts)100% agreement with his beliefs, but I don't have to be. He's not the sharpest tool in the tool box, and my personal first question has been, has he filled out the paperwork? Has he filed with County & SoS? There are some rules in Ark. about establishing a church but not many. And you can have a gift store in a church - which doesn't pay sales or income taxes.
From what we are understanding (*some* pagans in Ark., not all by any means) is that they weren't allowed to fill out the paperwork, why bother, when they were pre-denied. And no, paperwork is not available to d/l on internet tubes.
Again, hearsay, but I was told today that he finally has contacted the ACLU. He is an Obama hater and I quit following him on FB because of his screeds. Someone must have woken him up about actually contacting a lawyer.
So, some of us are going to the city council meeting to see what is up - do not want to get embarrassed by automatically jumping in on pagan discrimination when it could be totally something else.
One of the biggest problems he is having is the "lighthouse church" has installed a lighthouse that shines directly into their windows. Supposedly, in a college town, there is no breaking the peace law - yeah, sure, right. It seems(!) the cops are part of this church and sit outside his home on a daily basis for intimidation purposes.
We'll see...