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BLOCKBUSTER $50M Discrimination suit against Boulder County may have implications for Longmont City Council

Holy House of Worship, Batman!

Yesterday, in this blockbuster court ruling, Boulder County lost a key action in Denver's Federal Disctrict Court - with $50 million in damages at stake. Seems the McCoy and Benker are not the only ones persecuting people of Christian faith in Boulder County.

Since the City Council is pretty intent on spending our tax revenues on lawyers, they may want to get "lawyered up" with an expensive Denver defense firm and then send them this ruling (Download)!!! Of course, siamese twins Benker/McCoy read this blog daily, so this is the easiest way to get it to them...

New York Times
Colorado Church Wins Ruling on Expansion

By DIANA B. HENRIQUES

Published: April 2, 2008

A federal judge in Denver gave a preliminary victory to a rapidly growing Christian church that wants to expand on land designated for decades as open space.

The judge, Robert E. Blackburn of Federal District Court, refused to dismiss a lawsuit by the group challenging a Colorado county’s refusal to allow the expansion.

The lawsuit, filed against Boulder County by the Rocky Mountain Christian Church in Niwot, Colo., is an important test of a federal statute aimed at protecting churches and other houses of worship from discriminatory zoning.

The church says it has outgrown its current home, on a 54-acre site in one of the buffer zones the county established decades ago to preserve open space around its towns and villages. In February 2006, the county refused to permit the church to double the size of its buildings. The church sued under the federal Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000, saying the decision limiting its growth also limited its religious liberty.

Judge Blackburn concluded Tuesday that the case presented too many factual disputes to be dismissed at this stage and scheduled it for trial in November.

 

Benker & McCoy lead Longmont Taxpayers into War with Firestone

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE - TIMES-CALL: LONGMONT CITY OFFICIAL INVITES UNION TO ANNEX INTO LONGMONT!!!

While Longmont taxpayers were forking out over $10,000 for an expensive junket Washington DC, Benker and her Gang of Four concocted a scheme to hire a pricey Denver attorney to start a war with Firestone to block that city's approved, public master plan for growth. Firestone Mayor Mike Simone tells it like it in on his blog, linked here.

Karen Benker and her cronies got themselves elected last November by turning out the liberal Democrat vote with the help of Jen Gartner, Dung “Dooty” Wray, Duane Leise, known Republican-hater Kay Fissinger and Progress Action Now – a radical Leftist organization whose sole purpose is to prove that Dick Cheney has three sixes on his head. 

In an opening salvo, a certain "Ryan Clark" opened a P.O. Box in Frederick and mailed Firestone citizens a letter imploring them not to annex the land near Highway 119, using bald-faced lies and bigotry - and plugging Dung Wray's website. Click here for letter .

Firestone citizens rejected their hateful letter and their Council unanimously annexed the land east of County Line Road in Weld County. LongmontReport.com has reason to believe "Clark" is actually Leise and friends, because of the 5^th-grade prose and chimpanzee formatting. Also, there's no registered voter names "Ryan Clark" in the Tri-Towns area - but there sure is in Longmont!

The “Gang of Four” are now on their anti-church soapbox again and WE as taxpayers are being set up to pay for an expensive Denver attorney that Benker and her Bobbleheads have ALREADY hired so they can continue their war against the Union landowners at all costs.

It’s as if, after Longmont and other towns' annexations absorb all of the little patches along I-25 in the routine process of growing, Karen Benker wants only the Union property to be left as an island of unincorporated Weld County, because those damned church people own it.

MoveOn.org's Jen Gartner, Juday, et al, from the source: Yes, it is all about those stubborn Christians

Financial documents, letter writers reveal Gartner & Juday not telling the whole story of so-called "concerned citizens."

Anti-Union Annexation Gartner Proclaims “We're Locals”, but we find that's not so. “We're all Longmont residents...”
Jen Gartner
9/26/07 Daily Times Call

Funny, they come from Longmont Democrat leadership, and the rest donate to leftist causes:
“I was amazed by the cross section of other petition gatherers who rose from the grass roots”
Deb Gardner
9/30/07 Daily Times Call

Illegal petition takers?
Juday equivocates on the 'locals' assertion: “Every one of the circulators either is a Longmont resident or lives close enough to be affected by the proposed development. We have had financial support from some Longmont residents who have not been able to pound the pavement themselves.”
Richard Juday
9/28/07 Daily Times Call

CODE WORDS FOR 'CHRISTIAN REPUBLICANS': “The proposed compound and its logical extension into surrounding landholdings are patently designed to draw an enlarged religiously oriented population, and the annexation would change the religious balance of the community. An arguably similar situation led to substantial sociological changes to Colorado Springs. That city has also become the focus of national attention that I am no sure it would have wished to see.”
Richard Juday
8/16/2007

Anti Religion and a violator of campaign statutes? Can you say bigot? “The LifeBridge church is using its status as a tax-exempt entity to hoodwink the taxpayers of Longmont, and we should NOT allow it. You can become part of the growing movement to undo this fiscal insanity and stop the “Unholy Union” by going to (a website).” - M. Douglas Wray
8/30/2007 Daily Times Call

Duane Leise has a problem with churches getting bigger and thinks he is qualified to make “sweeping social decisions”. Can you say Stalinist? “The stated goal is a 20,000 membership, five to six times larger than now. Maybe the City Council has not discussed sociological impact because it doesn't believe in making sweeping social decisions.” - Duane Leise

Primary Juday-backer a Christian-hater:
“As I see it, they wish to turn Longmont into a fundamentalist regime,
where we must bow to them and their government” 
Marilyn Wray
8/2/07 Daily Times Call