Dominos founder building town; condoms, bc pills, abortion will b banned

[RagingInMiami]

Yes, Florida again.


NAPLES -- If Domino's Pizza founder Thomas S. Monaghan has his way, a new town being built in a quiet corner of southwest Florida will be governed by strict Catholic principles, particularly when it comes to sex.

The pizza magnate, raised by nuns in orphanages, is bankrolling the town called Ave Maria with millions of dollars, calling its construction ``God's will.'' Stores won't sell pornographic magazines, pharmacies won't carry condoms or birth control pills, and cable television will carry no X-rated channels, he said in a speech last year to the first annual Boston Catholic Men's Conference.

Civil libertarians say the plan is unconstitutional and promise lawsuits.

The town is being constructed around Ave Maria University, the first Catholic university to be built in the United States in four decades, which Monaghan also founded. Both are set to open next year about 25 miles east of Naples.


http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-228avemaria,0,3589972.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines

[HeeBGBz]

1. Fuck you, Dominos

I think your pizza sucks anyway.

[Dem Agog]

2. better yet...

... make it an island. float it away. take all the religious nutters with them...

i can't believe i worked for Domino's as a teen. damn shame I didn't use any of the paychecks to have an abortion, although I DID take Monahans money to buy up tons of birth control pills so I wouldn't get knocked up from the premarital sex i had while dreaming of the virgin mary.

oh wait am i going to hell for that?

[InternalDialogue]

15. Well, 25 miles east of Naples --

that's pretty much the start of the Everglades (or at least what's left of the Everglades). Close to an island.

And yes, you're going to hell. But I'm bringing a cooler with ice, so look for me.

[beam me up scottie]

18. You can make up for it by joining

our club, Evil Abortion of the Month.

We take turns getting knocked up so that we can make up new and fun reasons to have abortions.

There's all kinds of reasons to chose from, wanting to use the stem cells from your fetus to cure a relative's disease, anger because the fetus is the wrong sex, getting even with your boyfriend and/or husband, clothes don't fit anymore and the maternity ones suck, hey, make up one of your own, you get bonus points for that!

The really good members wait until they're in their third trimester, just so they can get one of those rare, but oh-so-thrilling "partial birth abortions".

Read all about us wicked women at Fundies Say the Darndest Things!

[peacebird]

3. If only we could get them all to move to the same area....

or better yet - if only the rapture would hurry up and take them.

[rzemanfl]

4. What is the name of this town "Don't come inside me?" n/t

[BurtWorm]

8. Civitas Interruptus

[Fenris]

10. Our Lady of Perpetual Rythym.

Keep your eyes on the calendar, moma and dad, unless you want the Lord to burden you with another example of His Love!

[rzemanfl]

42. Rhythm selectively breeds out women with regular cycles. They

will need a lot of schools in this town in a generation or two.

[RagingInMiami]

12. Hymen

[TahitiNut]

23. Pleasantville.

[ComerPerro]

31. Snarf

:rofl:

[BurtWorm]

5. Sounds like a blast.

:eyes:

Isn't this the constipated twit who funds the Thomas More Legal Foundation? Mayabe he'll stay in his sacred little enclave and leave the rest of us alone.

[GCP]

6. Well, that helps me in my choice of pizza parlors!

Bubbye Mr. Monaghan - your special little town has a future unwed mother-baby boom to look forward to.

Maybe he'll have a town orphanage just like where he grew up.

[Fenris]

7. "governed by strict Catholic principles"

1240 AD here we come!

[NoPasaran]

19. "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"

"Our two chief weapons are surprise and fear and cold pizza with soggy crust."

[last1standing]

9. I wonder how this is differs from any other cultist compound?

This will be nothing more than a closed community where everyone will have to follow the will of their "beloved leader".

I find it very telling that you never hear about "left wing" compounds, only these religious nutjobs.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

22. Remember Bhagwan Rajneesh?

That didn't really work out all that well, as I recall.

[CAcyclist]

39. Um, well, there was the Reverend Jim Jones

whose cultists worked on numerous democratic campaigns in SF. Remember, the cult that died from poisoned kool aid?

[last1standing]

47. Thanks to you and OldLeftieLawyer for pointing out my error.

:)

I do feel somewhat vindicated, though, seeing that both of these cults are decades old and in the case of Jim Jones, defunct. Unfortunately, we will have to deal with the likes of monaghan, moon, and the aryan nation for many years to come.

[CAcyclist]

52. True, true - maybe they are the exceptions that prove the rule

but I think there's danger on either extreme of the political spectrum - people at those extremes tend to be "true believer" types that are less swayed by evidence that doesn't fit their preconceived notions. Ths, more likely to be subject to the brainwashing of a charismatic cultist.

[Stuckinthebush]

11. I'm just guessing here...

but I'd say that Mr. Domino's Pizza dude has some serious issues with sex. I don't mean to go out on a limb, but the subtle cues indicate this. Don't try this at home, I'm a professional! :D

[RagingInMiami]

13. Guaranteed to come in 30 seconds or less

Or your pizza is free

[InternalDialogue]

16. I've already got that line trademarked.

Personal issue. Cease and desist.

[last1standing]

46. Delete

[rooboy]

14. Like a lot of the sexual activity that will go on there...

the whole idea takes it up the ass.

[RaleighNCDUer]

17. So will he take it as a message from god when the ever-strengthening

hurricanes pick up this little town and drop it in the Gulf?

[RagingInMiami]

21. And the houses and pharmacies come tumbling down

like a row of Dominos.

[Batgirl]

20. how nice, an entire town built around the idea of controlling

what its residents do with their genitals. Meaning the people who live there will spend approximately 98% of their waking hours focusing their attention on what is or isn't going on in their hoo-haws, not to mention speculating on what the neighbors are up to with theirs. Such lofty aspirations.

I wonder if there is a scientific way to measure the hypocrisy in parts per square inch of such a community. The levels are sure to be stratospheric, as usual when humans piously announce their intention to control and eliminate normal human behavior and desires. The seamy underbelly of this town will eventually make Buffalo Bill's basement lair in Silence of the Lambs look like Pleasantville.

[Botany]

24. Sounds like a fun town.

The community, developed through a partnership with the Barron Collier Company, an agricultural and real estate firm, will be set on 5,000 acres with a European-inspired town center. It will encircle a massive church and what planners call the largest crucifix in the nation, standing nearly 65 feet tall.

[patricia92243]

25. Odd - he was raised in an orphanage and believes people should have kids

they can't care for.

[muntrv]

26. Oh please

build this town! The hurricanes are intensifying every year.

[Maestro]

27. I hope someone sets up a strip joing or better yet

an escort service just outside of town. I'd bet it would be a very busy place or with the bottled up tension in that town.

[petronius]

28. Should lead to some interesting court cases, at least

It sounds like a really big version of a gated community, but extending all those intrusive home-owners' association rules to businesses as well as residences. I don't see why they shouldn't be allowed to do whatever they want (subject to state and federal laws), just don't expect me to live there...

[Ecumenist]

29. Can anyone say...

JONESTOWN?? This is too creepy for words.... I wonder if they'll start naming young,fertile women "Allred"? Handmaid's Tale, here we come.

[SoCalDem]

30. Whew!.. I thought you meant Domino's Sugar

I'm not sure I could do without my granulated brown sugar, but I can SURELY do without Domino's cardboard pizza:)

[muntrv]

32. OH KATRINA!!

TOMMY'S HOME!!

[ComerPerro]

33. The same guy who supports the murder of doctors is founding a town?

Don't think I ever want to go there...

[C_U_L8R]

34. Sounds like a town without the Constitution

I can't wait for it to be built....
that unAmerican sonnofabitch deserves to lose his fortune on this boondoggle.

[hopeisaplace]

35. Won't be surprised to hear of increased spousal and child abuse

in this town.

I used to think that "Footloose" was just a MOVIE - didn't realizing they were
projecting when they made it. *oh.my.gawd. :wow:

[donco6]

36. Why doesn't he just move to Jonestown?

I hear it's vacant.

[spanone]

37. That's Creepy.

[onenote]

38. I'm all in favor

I'd love to see the folks who believe this crap move out of my neighborhood and go live somewhere else. Fewer fundie voters in my neck of the woods is okay by me...

onenote

[Lone_Star_Dem]

40. What a way to guarantee population growth

You just don't let people control their reproduction. After all, every wasted sperm could have produced a tax paying citizen. They're going to need that tax money with all those lawsuits.

[SmokingJacket]

41. Depends how it's organized legally.

They shouldn't expect tax-supported fire and police service, for example.

[dysfunctional press]

43. or roads...or other state/federal/country infrastructure.

and something tells me that you'll still be able to find condom wrappers in the back corners of parking lots and the like.

[Ron Green]

44. Florida again. What's up with that? n/t

[geomon666]

50. He wants to be closer to god.

I'm hoping that means he'll be standing on his roof when the next hurricane comes and gets carried away to heaven.

[Iris]

45. Wonder how many people will move there?

[DanCa]

48. Crap food crap politics,

I can honestly say I haven't bought a pizza there in like five or six years. And it has nothing to do with his politics. Now that I know well, it's easier to pass it up. Dominos no thank you.

[KamaAina]

49. Meet the Mayor!

"Hi-diddly-ho, happy townsfolk!"

edit: pix

[soothsayer]

51. I hope they get some better pizza franchises in that town----

Domino's sucks! Love the name, and that it revived delivery, but jeez o pete there pizza is crummy.

[rpgamerd00d]

53. I'd open "Bob's Contraceptive, Sex Toy, Porn and Abortion Clinic"

And put a sign in my front window that read:

"Bring it on."

:rofl: