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Selling National Forest land to a church
November 30, 2011 at 7:32 pm
There’s a bill floating around congress, H.R. 1008 The Benton MacKaye Cherokee National Forest Land Consolidation Act, that would sell about 60 acres of the Cherokee National Forest to Towee Falls Baptist Church. If passed into law the proceeds from the sale would be used by the forest service to buy nearby slightly larger parcel of property for addition to the national forest. The purchase price would be set according to a market value determined by an appraisal arranged by the forrest service and paid for by the church.
I don’t have a problem with the proposal, but I have an interest in the church as my Mom’s family has been attending church at Towee Falls for 7 generations now. They need some space to expand the cemetery which is getting rather full. I was wondering though what some of you might think about selling government property to a church.
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RE: Selling National Forest land to a church
November 30, 2011 at 7:49 pm
I can hold my nose and grudgingly accept the congress passing a bill which puts a part of national forest up for sale to the highest bidder from the general public, and it turns out that a Baptist church is the winning bidder.
I am vorciferously against the the congress passing a bill to sell a part of a national forest to a basptist church.
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RE: Selling National Forest land to a church
November 30, 2011 at 10:29 pm
Why not...they sell 3 foot square patches of land under a cross in order to get around having religious symbols on public land...why not sell our national forests to the religious...hell, why not sell Yosemite park to the highest bidder as well.
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RE: Selling National Forest land to a church
December 1, 2011 at 9:34 am
#1 - I am opposed to selling public land.
#2 - I dispise and distrust the church
#3 - My voice and vote really doesnt count for shit anyways in this matter...Im not some moneyed corporate owner or lobbyist.
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RE: Selling National Forest land to a church
December 1, 2011 at 1:53 pm
(This post was last modified: December 1, 2011 at 1:54 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
If the church is the highest bidder that's fine. If not, there's an issue. Chuck hit it on the head.
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RE: Selling National Forest land to a church
December 1, 2011 at 4:55 pm
Yeah the government should give everyone a chance to buy it. Setting it aside just for a church violates the Establishment Clause. If nobody else were interested in buying it, then I don't care. But they should at least give someone else a chance.
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