re: #156 dugmartsch

[…] Regardless, you’re bringing public safety concerns into the issue when those are just straw men. The issue is what authority a government should have in passing laws that prohibit the building of structures on private property for religious reasons. […]

I never mentioned public safety. That’s your cuddly little straw man.

I happen to think that towns have the right to prohibit building that radically alters the character of the locale. If I have a three-hundred acre farm and no one can see my post-structurally-sound edifice except from the air, that’s another matter.

The whole point of a minaret in Europe (or in Deerfield, Massachusetts) is to challenge the natives. It has nothing to do with religious freedom and everything to do with arrogance. Good for the Swiss for stamping hard on that.