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Wed Nov 12, 2014, 09:10 PM Nov 2014

Domino’s founder turning FL town into unconstitutional contraception-free ‘Catholic enclave’

Scott Kaufman
12 Nov 2014 at 12:37 ET

Americans United for Separation of Church and State are claiming that the small town of Ave Maria, Florida instituted an “undemocratic form of government dominated by one man’s interpretation of religious doctrine.”

That man would be Domino’s Pizza founder, and former Detroit Tigers co-owner, Tom Monaghan, who took the advice of billionaires Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett to give away half of his $485 million fortune before he dies.

When he sold Domino’s Pizza to Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital in 1998, he used $300 million to open the town’s two schools — one, Ave Maria University, the other a law school whose curriculum was designed with “significant input” from conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

“The most important thing I could do with the resources I had been blessed with was to help build quality, faithful Catholic education,” he told Ann Arbor News at the time. “To have a more global impact, I need to focus on higher education to train the teachers, the principals, the future Catholic university and seminary professors.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/dominos-pizza-founder-turning-fl-town-into-unconstitutional-contraception-free-catholic-enclave/

Papa John's is no better.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101778792

Screw it, I'll just get some falafel.

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