Wait on Jehovah? Or, sue to get it done?

by Funchback 6 Replies latest jw friends

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  Funchback

  If Dubster's really believe in 'waiting on Jehovah', then why do they sue when they don't get their way? Just seems like a contraction (what else is new?).

  Jehovah's Witnesses sue for Kingdom Hall AARON LEO [email protected] Article Last Updated: 12/27/2007 10:49:06 PM EST http://www.connpost.com/localnews/ci_7824555

  BRIDGEPORT — Rebuffed twice by the Planning and Zoning Commission, Jehovah's Witnesses have sued the city to build two connected meeting halls on a Huntington Turnpike lot.

  The suit was filed in early December by lawyer Timothy Hollister, of Shipman & Goodwin in Hartford, according to Jeff Gordon, a volunteer for a regional Jehovah's Witnesses building committee.

  The lawyer was unavailable for comment. Greg Conte, an associate city attorney who handles zoning issues, was also unavailable.

  But Patricia Fardy, the P&Z chairwoman, stood by the board's reasons for denying the Kingdom Hall proposal at 257-269 Huntington Turnpike.

  "I'm familiar with the area and the sight line is in question" for the property and passing traffic, she said.

  The Jehovah's Witnesses' traffic studies underestimated the speed at which traffic travels through the area, she said, adding that the project was denied out of concern for the "safety of parishioners and the public."

  "Exiting and entering that driveway would have been very, very hazardous," she said.

  The commission unanimously rejected the application in September, citing traffic concerns as a primary reason. Two City Council members at the time pointed out that the site is a few blocks from so-called "Dead Man's Curve," an 0.8-mile-long stretch bordering on Beardsley Park named for numerous serious motor vehicle accidents that have occurred.

  But a revised application, presented at November's P&Z meeting, proposed the elimination of walls and trees to improve the sight lines for an unobstructed 1,000 feet.

  The vote then was 4-3 in favor of the plan, but it was a rejection by default because the proposal failed to win a two-thirds majority, or five of the seven P&Z members.

  Jehovah's Witness congregations that would have met in the proposed Kingdom Halls worship in Spanish, French and American Sign Language. They now meet in Monroe and Orange. There's also a Kingdom Hall on West Avenue near State Street.

  Gordon said despite the rejections, the Jehovah's Witnesses still plan to buy the second of two homes on the property. They own the first one.
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  mouthy

  GRRRRR!!!!! Makes ya mad. To think they will probably get their way. Cant go against religous freedom,which the WT ( while I was a member & helped fight for) GOT for all except their own members.
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  uninformed

  The vote then was 4-3 in favor of the plan, but it was a rejection by default because the proposal failed to win a two-thirds majority, or five of the seven P&Z members.

  Serves the assholes right. According to Ray Franz, they used a 2/3 majority rule to change their view on Bible interpretation. Like that isn't more important.

  I hope they never get their way.

  Someone who is better at expressing themselves than me should write their planning and zoning commission and tell them that the Governing Body requires a 2/3 approval to effect a doctrine change. That might help the city in the suit.

  Brant
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  Funchback

  "Cant go against religous freedom,which the WT ( while I was a member & helped fight for) GOT for all except their own members."

  Great point, mouthy. They brag about how they are integral to gaining religious freedom for all, but yet their own member don't have "freedom".
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  WTWizard

  Maybe it would take a few witlesses to get killed ingressing or egressing the Kingdumb Hell to have everyone start missing boasting sessions (or course, they would then have a talk that dying is no excuse for missing the almighty important boasting sessions). The bad part is that would put innocent lives at risk in the process just to kill a few of those cockroaches and scare some new ones away.

  I think a plan would be that, if they went ahead, the congregations using the Kingdumb Hell, and the idiots in the Society that approved that site, would be held totally liable for any accidents that result from ingress and egress to and from the Kingdumb Hell. I'm sure they wouldn't mind taking a few million dollars, or more, out of the Worldwide Pedophile Defense Fund to pay victims of those accidents.
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  Scully

  The P&Z Committee are not basing their denial to rezone on the fact that JWs want to build there. They are basing their denial on the threat to public safety for anyone to build there.

  It's stupid in the extreme that JWs would want to put their own congregation at risk - the lives of husbands and fathers, of wives and mothers, and of innocent children - just so they can build a Kingdom Hall on land that they probably bought very cheaply. Idiots, pure and simple.
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  wha happened?

  I was told to wait on Jehovah rather than sue when I was financially wronged by another JW. Hearing this kind of crap annoys me and reminds me of why I left