According to a news report from NBC5.com, “Situated on the northwest edge of the Everglades in Florida and designed not for golf, but with God in mind, a town called Ave Maria is built around a 100-foot tall Roman Catholic oratory, like many medieval European villages.”
“Souls are what the town’s developers hope to attract and, perhaps, save when this development and university open Saturday.Tom Monaghan, the founder of Domino’s Pizza and a devout Catholic, is bankrolling most of the $400 million investment.The Catholic Church and its values are to be at the heart of this community, and that has the American Civil Liberties Union shaking their heads.”We don’t live in a country in which communities are allowed to become mini theocracies by which religious rules are imposed upon the government,” said the ACLU’s Howard Simon,” said the story.
