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Originally Posted by Ianto.W.

Second point planning permission for a Synagogue would have had to go through the same procedure, as would a Mormon Temple, or any other religious persuasion. The point being would they have had all the aggro the Moslems had? NO.

I'd just like to clarify so that people don't misunderstand. Mormon Sunday services and Sunday school classes take place in a church/chapel. Our nearest purpose built one is in Blackburn. At other times we have rented rooms in a wide variety of places including AccyTown Hall, Moorhead School, Darwen Vale School and the Masonic Lodge in Ossy. I'm not aware that we've ever had much aggro with any of those.

The Temple is a different thing entirely. We only have 2 in this country. The nearest is in Chorley and we did get quite a bit of opposition to it being built when it was in the planning stages mainly because people assumed things like it would bring down the house prices in the area (actually they went up) or that Chorley would be full of Americans (not really, it's for the Mormons of this country not for an overseas invasion) Once it was built we had some militant objectors from other churches but they were just making themselves look foolish with some of the silly nonsense they published about us. Some of the objections were more like queries and they were valid because people were concerned about a possible blot on the landscape - until they became aware of possible alternative blots if the church didn't buy the land for the temple. I think ours turned out to be the least of all possible blots.

The point is that some people object not because they actually know what they're objecting to, but because they think they know, or because they just object to a group of people regardless of whether it will affect their own lives or not.