Reply #10: Nothing new

[Xeric]

As creepy as this sounds, its as American as apple pie.
Many towns were founded by various religious cults and kooks over the years.
For example the town of Zion, Illinois:

"Lake County, 41 miles N of the Loop. On New Year's Day 1900, John Alexander Dowie announced to the church he had established in 1896, the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church, that he planned to build a utopian city on a tract of land at the extreme northeastern edge of Illinois. When Zion City was incorporated in 1902, 5,000 inhabitants joined the Christian utopia. Named after the mountain upon which Jerusalem was built, Zion City was to be communitarian and theocratic, a place of Christian cooperation, racial harmony, and strict fundamentalist morals."
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1399.html

A few years back an atheist friend of mine sued the town to get the crosses off their street signs. I went with him to the City Council meeting. What a crowd. There were Klanners, fundies galore. We needed a police escort out of the place. But the signs came down.
And that's what will happen to this place. It may start out as Mr. Dominoes fundie paradise but reality will soon set in. And look at all the Universities that started as religious centers of learning and became secular institutions. Some day even Pat Robertson's "college" will be something other than it is now. Change happens despite every "conservatives" attempt to stop it.