McGrath: Interesting you should mention this.   My point exactly from the earlier post.
          That was the problem which I thought unfair---and I am not Orthodox--some Orthodox were going to use a private home. The protests from neighbors---Jewish and Christian (organized by a Jewish person I know---not a friend surely) got the authorities to stop it. As you say ---parking was not a problem. No cars. Strangely that is the issue---among a few others--they presented to the authorities. Auto congestion. Truly a red herring---whatever that expression means.
          It all comes down to people and property values. With any type of understanding left somewhere out in the cold. I do not believe it is bigotry in anyway---but I do have to say it is sad when one Jewish person gathers his co-religionists and people of other faiths to protest use by some that are, he feels infringing on his property value.

          I would say, parenthecally, the same about any faith that would do something like that. Let us face it---nobody's hands are all that clean---and, perhaps, religion, rather uniting us, divides us.


Bill Hahn