Tuesday, March 14, 2006
theocratic catholic pizza utopia
The founder of Dominoes Pizza is building a Catholic utopia in Naples, Florida. I guess this is one way of doing it:
In March of last year, Tom Monaghan, founder of Domino's Pizza, promised that Ave Maria , the planned community he is developing near Naples, Fla., would be a Roman Catholic haven in secular America. "We're going to control all the commercial real estate, so there's not going to be any pornography sold in this town," he said. "We're controlling the cable system. The pharmacies are not going to be able to sell condoms or dispense contraceptives." Monaghan backed down a bit this month, saying that birth control will be permitted, though not sold to students at the town's Catholic college . But his history of donations to conservative Catholic organizations suggests that he's spending his $250 million to seed a town of 20,000 that is, if not quite a theocracy, then as close to it as he can manage.
