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10.27.2009 3:30pm EDT
(Murfreesboro, Tenn.) The Tennessee Court of Appeals at Nashville has ruled in favor of a rezoning that would allow a Bible-based theme park to be built in Rutherford County.
At issue is a section of the county zoning resolution that requires a two-thirds vote, rather than a simple majority, if at least 20 percent of neighboring property owners petition against the rezoning.In the decision Friday, the Appeals Court ruled that the supermajority approval requirement was invalid. It directed the Rutherford County Board of Commissioners to declare the zoning application for Bible Park USA granted since a majority had approved it.
Developers have filed a separate lawsuit against the county in U.S. District Court in Nashville for $2 million – money they say they had invested in the planning and initial work on the park.
Wouldn’t a gay day at a religious theme park mean paying them to be anti-gay? No thanks.
Everyone knows about Gay Days at Disney. But how many people know about “The Holy Land” experience just down the street from Disney here in Florida. I wonder what their reaction would be if we held a gay day there. That sounds like a big shocker to them.
This is gay news because “Bible-based” also means anti-gay, among many other things.
I hate when they use the phrase “Bible-based.” It’s not “Bible-based.” It’s “Our-ignorant-literal-interpretation-of-the-Bible-based.”
These people steal the Bible from thinking humans every time they do this.
So are we (the gays) going to be represented in the “Armageddon” section, the “Dante’s INFERNO” section or the “Sodom and Gomorrah” section of Jesus world? I need to know what to wear…does this red Asbestos suit make my butt look big or clash with my custom fitted Crucifix?
I don’t quite get how this is gay news, it’s about as much gay news as the state court forced down zoning of a lot of county land in the county I live in, in WA.
Is it going to include all the bible contradictions? That would be funny to watch! The flat earth, etc . . .
HAHAHAHAHA!
@Justin Johnson–sorry dude, but this is EXACTLY why I’m still a snob about having grown up in Nashville versus any of the surrounding counties. Maybe you coulda got this built in Nashville…if the Bellevue Mall site weren’t so far west, if Antioch weren’t multiethnic gangland, and if Madison wasn’t already built up. Thank you Rutherford County!
I know a guy who moved from Cleveland down to Smyrna–he’s barely a mile from this! Before he moved, I said, “Tom, why the fuck you wanna move to Smyrna? Yee-haw, Sam Ridley Parkway, suburban dads cruisin’ for mansex behind a strip mall–before they pick the kids up from Sunday school at some Baptist megachurch (around the corner from the house he was looking at). Tom, why don’t you look back in the city? Belmont, or 8th Av South, or Richland Park, or East Nashville? Why you wanna live all the way out there?” This is a single guy with no living relatives. He said the house had a lot of room, and the taxes were less than what he paid for a house half the price in the Cleveland suburb of Lakewood. “But Tom–what the hell are you gonna do with a 3-bedroom house in Smyrna–invite the Baptists for Thanksgiving?” That’s when he told me about the proposed Jesusworld (or whatever they’re calling it) maybe a mile from him. “Shit, Tom, you’re as unreligious as I am–what the fuck you wanna buy a house when you got tour buses full of anal-retentive Baptists swarming your neighborhood?” His justification was that a new Target store was opening nearby.
@Keltie–if you grew up in the South, anything regarding the god squad is gay news. Let me know if you need a quick lesson in the stranger quirks of Southern Protestantism. Snake handling? Speaking in tongues? Laying on of hands? These people are as nuts a barrel of almonds, and every so often they develop a bizarre fixation on something gay.
Austin, if it makes you feel any better, you know those crosses by 65 when you’re coming from Brentwood into Nashville? Yeah…my oldest friend is related to them. And she did video production for a Limp Bizkit video (”Sour,” shot a few miles from Opry Mills).
I believe it’s a private establishment without support from government funding. Let them have it.
So when a law exists, and applies to everyone UNTIL the Bible Park doesn’t like it, how is this not a violation of the First Amendment?
Gay Day at Jesus World is the day WE decide it is LOL! Someone should pick a day, and every LGBT person within a 100-mile radius should show up and we can have our own Gay Day there. We can all wear rainbow “Jesus Loves Everyone” t-shirts as well.
So when is gay day at Jesus World?
We don’t want this in Tennessee. Gone are the days of hicktown Nashville. At the very least build the damn thing in the middle of nowhere, not in Rutherford County!
…How is this gay news?