Comments on: #1 Reason To NOT Be An Ada Commish

By: Zippo

Zippo — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 16:15:45 +0000

Never forget… it’s just a tax-free business: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-mormon-deseret-huge-land-deal-20131107,0,697936.story

By: Zippo

Zippo — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:13:59 +0000

bb: How about having LDS build it for them. Just to be fair… Kinda like a church welfare system.

By: bikeboy

bikeboy — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 16:27:24 +0000

Foothills Rider:

I’m a practicing “Mormon” and a lifelong resident of Ada County. If I got wind that a “minority” religion wasn’t getting the same treatment as the LDS, I’d gladly attend a hearing to protest. Big cathedral, synagogue, or mosque… BRING IT! (Hopefully a peaceful mosque, not a jihad mosque.)

By: Foothills Rider

Foothills Rider — Sun, 27 Oct 2013 16:15:21 +0000

“Majority religion” was not intended to compare Mormon with “all other non-Mormon.” Mormonism is the majority religion in Idaho, and in fact Idaho is second only to Utah in percentage identifying as Mormon. Comments intended to spark thought: was preferential treatment given to a religious group, in conflict to stated ordinances and building limits? Did religion trump (or change) law? Would outcome have been different if not an LDS project? Would the same supporters argue in favor of a Mosque, using the same arguments that were presented in support of the temple? Would the commissioners have gone the same way?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Idaho#Religion

By: Zippo

Zippo — Sun, 27 Oct 2013 07:24:36 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_denominations_by_number_of_members

By: Zippo

Zippo — Sun, 27 Oct 2013 07:20:18 +0000

I see no problem with building a huge monstrosity to celebrate their religion. If one travels outside of this region it is very common to come upon much larger Catholic “temples” which certainly outsized and outclassed any other building for hundreds of miles when they were built. Currently the tallest building in Washington DC is a church.

About 25% of Idaho’s population claims to be Mormon.

The hodge-podge of other less organized/smaller/independent Christian-based churches which are nearly all identical) plus the 18% of Idahoans which claim Catholicism by far outnumber. Further, the highest percentage of Mormonism in the world is in eastern Idaho thus Ada Co. is not at the 25% mark.

On the world stage Mormonism is tiny, but they are growing rapidly in our current era of “tolerance”(or perhaps weakness) by the Catholic dominated Christian world. LDS will not have such good fortune doing business in Muslim dominated regions however because Muslims have no central control/organization, thus no one to make a peace treaty with.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_religious_groups

By: Foothills Rider

Foothills Rider — Sat, 26 Oct 2013 19:51:50 +0000

It IS a zoning issue, as Clancy stated early here. It should not be about religion, more specifically, preferential treatment of a majority religion. If this was a same size/scope project, same landscape, setbacks, and needed the same ordinance rework and variations for height and size, but was a MOSQUE, would it have passed?

EDITOR NOTE–Earlier commenter cite4d this ordinance as possible “permission.” http://www.adaweb.net/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=ZK6mgofwpEM%3d&tabid=160

By: Snoop

Snoop — Sat, 26 Oct 2013 04:41:08 +0000

I’m always amazed at the comments, attitudes, and actions of so many “Christians”, this site included. Who am I to judge another? I think its comical to see how a zoning ordinance became a hate filled tirade for some. This just shows the lack of class on this site.

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 26 Oct 2013 02:38:47 +0000

Shoogi – well said. For all the “Christians” in the city there is sure a lot of “un-Christian” behavior against the Mormons.

By: Shoogi

Shoogi — Sat, 26 Oct 2013 01:13:34 +0000

I moved here 15 years ago from a state that moved away from me, in the philosophical sense. I grew up around some mormons, knew a few in high school, worked for a mormon family as a teenager, and knew a few in scouts. I never thought twice about their religion, I don’t remember anyone ever saying a derogative thing about them. Then I moved to Boise and almost immediately neighbors and co-workers, are warning me about mormons, “Never do business with them”, “They control everything around here”, “You don’t want to live in that neighborhood, there are a lot of mormons there!”. I am still dumbfounded by the extreme anti-mormon attitude that many people in this valley harbor. You start a conversation about mormons in this town, and the anti-mormon rabble rousers come a runnin! Give it a rest people! We get it, you hate mormons…move on!