My country and your's are one in the same, Bill. And in my part of our country, variences to zoning laws are often obtained. Whether or not YOU get a varience however, is often if not always influenced to some degree by your social strata, your economic clout, who your friends are, who you do business with, who you're related to, where you live, the color of your collar, and yes Bill, by whether your religious preferences are in agreement with those of the zoning board members. Sometimes even the merits of the case are actually considered too!

Now, I have no doubt that Suffern's zoning board may well be more enlightened and egalitarian in the execution of it's duties than is ours, but I can attest from personal experience that our board's working motto could best be summed up as, "We Take Care of Our Own", (the corollary to that being "screw the rest of you").

You know, to me this is an obvious case of "if it walks like a duck..."