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Related: About this forumKennesaw council reverses course on proposed mosque
http://www.11alive.com/story/news/local/kennesaw/2014/12/11/kennesaw-council-reverses-course-mosque/20230297/KENNESAW, Ga. (WXIA) -- Wednesday night, in a stunning reversal, the Kennesaw City Council said they plan to approve the new mosque that they rejected last week.
All five council members met in private for more than two and a half hours Wednesday at Kennesaw City Hall. They met in private with the mayor and with the city attorney.
Just after 9 p.m., they reconvened in public, and Mayor Mark Mathews announced that the council members who had voted against the mosque last week wanted to change their votes and vote for the mosque, at their next meeting, on Monday. That vote would allow Kennesaw Muslims to rent a storefront in a small shopping center just off of Highway 41 for their worship center.
Council members did not say why they were changing their votes to Yes. But they knew that the city was facing a certain, and expensive, lawsuit by the Muslims claiming that the city was violating their Constitutional rights. And the Mayor read a statement (see below) indicating that the mosque application fits with the city's Vision and Mission.
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Lint Head
(15,064 posts)cbayer
(146,218 posts)I think all the attention was pivotal in making them change this
safeinOhio
(32,715 posts)MONEY. Going to cost a bundle, so they can find in their hearts and wallets to approve it.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)trotsky
(49,533 posts)Who should we blame for them starting off with the wrong decision? Did the gods do that too?
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)I imagine you did comprehend the irony wrapped in satire of my reply. Otherwise I question the intent of your reply.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)Lint Head
(15,064 posts)Hijacking the subject to start a religious debate with ad hominem and non sequitur is a waste of time. I will not participate.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)Some people think that religion and religious beliefs never play a role in bad things. But they definitely should get credit for good things.
Was only wondering if you subscribed to that POV.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Lint Head
(15,064 posts)trotsky
(49,533 posts)in destructive or harmful events?
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)cbayer
(146,218 posts)They thought wrong.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)If the mountain will not come to Mohammed then Mohammed must go to the mountain.
Kennesaw mountain in this case.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)I hope they are sincere in there change of vote, but I am not convinced there has been a change of heart.
Here is a big toast the the solitary councilwoman who voted for this in the first place and maintained her position.
She is a hero.