The Michigan town where only Christians are allowed to buy houses

[Soph0571]

Tucked away in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, somewhere along the winding roads that hug Great Lakes shores, is an idyllic town named Bay View. For more than a century, generations of “Bay Viewers” have congregated here to share in summer activities.

What started out as a modest camping ground for Methodist families 140 years ago has quietly developed into a stunning vacation spot for people who can afford the upkeep of a second home. Streets named Moss, Fern and Maple are dotted with impeccably maintained century-old gingerbread cottages. Over the horizon, residents can watch lifelong friends sail their boats across the water.

But this paradise is not open to all.

In Bay View, only practicing Christians are allowed to buy houses, or even inherit them.

[link:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/09/christians-only-town-bay-view-michigan?CMP=twt_gu&utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark|

[dchill]

1. The phrase "practicing Christians" implies that...

they're trying to learn to do it better. That's obviously problematic.

Practice makes perfect, not.

[Act_of_Reparation]

4. Not according to my practicing physician.

[dchill]

5. "Practice makes perfect, not" only applies to the ...

aforementioned "practicing Christians." Of course. The only thing they're practicing is being authoritarian assholes. Most physicians actually do "practice," of course.

[Act_of_Reparation]

7. I'm just saying "repeating an action for the purpose of increasing proficiency"...

...is only one definition of the word "practice". Another definition "is the application of an idea or a method". When people talk about practicing medicine or practicing Christianity, or how things "work in practice", they're talking about that second definition, not the first.

[dchill]

8. The first definition is the result of the second...

Especially if you "practice by doing." Either way, the idea is to get it right. That's my "fundamental" problem with the term "practicing Christians." They're doing it wrong, on purpose, and that's not practicing Christianity. That's practicing Hannity.

[Act_of_Reparation]

9. Sure it is.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. This is also the premise behind the properties in Ocean Grove, NJ.

https://www.oceangrove.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_Grove,_New_Jersey

[Dorian Gray]

3. I grew up

a few towns away from ocean grove and didn't have any idea about the revivalist history of the town until I was a grown adult!

[Iggo]

6. I thought we left Restricted Neighborhoods behind back in the 60's. (n/t)