Domino’s founder turning FL town into unconstitutional contraception-free ‘Catholic enclave’

[geardaddy]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/dominos-pizza-founder-turning-fl-town-into-unconstitutional-contraception-free-catholic-enclave/

Americans United for Separation of Church and State are claiming that the small town of Ave Maria, Florida instituted an “undemocratic form of government dominated by one man’s interpretation of religious doctrine.”

That man would be Domino’s Pizza founder, and former Detroit Tigers co-owner, Tom Monaghan, who took the advice of billionaires Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett to give away half of his $485 million fortune before he dies.

When he sold Domino’s Pizza to Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital in 1998, he used $300 million to open the town’s two schools — one, Ave Maria University, the other a law school whose curriculum was designed with “significant input” from conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

“The most important thing I could do with the resources I had been blessed with was to help build quality, faithful Catholic education,” he told Ann Arbor News at the time. “To have a more global impact, I need to focus on higher education to train the teachers, the principals, the future Catholic university and seminary professors.”

Once the schools were established, Monaghan set out to create a “Catholic enclave,” in which cable providers are prohibited from carrying pornographic channels and the sale of all contraception is forbidden.

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[leftofcool]

1. Not much you can do with a private gulag.

[dilby]

2. Well they planned the town so I guess it works similar to a

Homeowner's association or a private community. Besides who in the hell would want to move their anyways?

[KamaAina]

9. Apparently not very many.

It isn't even listed in the census!

[Initech]

3. Why do crazy people with this much money never use it for good?

[Warpy]

8. Uh, because they're crazy?

We used to order delivery pizza during hellish shifts at my last job and the unspoken rule was "anybody but Domino's." Even the religious nurses obeyed this rule.

Likely Monaghan will be the patriarch of a cultlike atmosphere in his little fiefdom, populated by antiabortion men and their exhausted wives, beaten down by yearly childbirth.

Good luck to him collecting the money he thinks he's going to make on turning his little piece of Florida into heaven on earth. Most people will realize it's really hell in fairly short order.

[louis-t]

4. Jim Jones would be very proud.

Another rich guy decides that the solution to the world's problems is shut everyone out and start your own "enclave" where you make all your own rules and force everyone else to live by them. Good luck with that.

[Initech]

10. Isn't that what they're doing with that insane gun /Ayn Rand utopia in Idaho?

[madfloridian]

5. Rick Santorum called Ave Maria students "Warriors for God".

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/2675

[MisterP]

6. a city of Hutton Gibson Catholics: will it be called Sedevacantia?

OO, and the TFP freaks

[Dawson Leery]

7. Tom Monaghan is a greater threat than any Islamic terrorist.

He worships at the altar of the Whore Panzer Pontiff (Ratzinger).

[shenmue]

11. :(

I try to eat at local places. Helps keep my pennies out of his hands.

[Odin2005]

12. This clusterfuck is still on?