There was an article in the local paper about the neighborhood I grew up in.
http://columbian.com/article/20090923/NE...1/ARCHIVES
A typical suburban middle class, mostly white neighborhood. As long as I can remember there was an athletic club in the neighborhood. That club closed down a couple years ago and was purchased last year to be used as a Sikh temple. Well I guess the neighbors are having a fit and went so far as to hire a lawyer to try and stop this from happening. They claim it's about neighborhood impact, traffic and such, and has nothing to do with religion. I say bullshit. There are neighborhoods all over town with churches in them. If it were a nice, white Christian church going in I'd bet my first born that no one in that neighborhood would have said a word. As far as traffic goes the athletic club is 2 blocks from the main road. I don't see how that's going to clog the neighborhood streets.
http://columbian.com/article/20090923/NE...1/ARCHIVES
A typical suburban middle class, mostly white neighborhood. As long as I can remember there was an athletic club in the neighborhood. That club closed down a couple years ago and was purchased last year to be used as a Sikh temple. Well I guess the neighbors are having a fit and went so far as to hire a lawyer to try and stop this from happening. They claim it's about neighborhood impact, traffic and such, and has nothing to do with religion. I say bullshit. There are neighborhoods all over town with churches in them. If it were a nice, white Christian church going in I'd bet my first born that no one in that neighborhood would have said a word. As far as traffic goes the athletic club is 2 blocks from the main road. I don't see how that's going to clog the neighborhood streets.
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