Source: The New York Times
This is the chronicle of how a founding principle of this country, the freedom to worship, crashed into a public bureaucracy in the venerable and prosperous New Jersey suburb of Bernards Township.
There, a brittle layer of shifting regulations sat atop a lava field of private contempt for Muslims on the part of some public officials who felt free to send email “jokes” that President Barack Obama was a Muslim, an illegal immigrant and a communist.
Most of all, it is a story of a rare phenomenon in American law: unconstitutional parking spots.
More than five years ago, the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge sought permits to build a mosque big enough for 150 people on a four-acre parcel, where zoning permitted houses of worship. Basking Ridge falls within Bernards Township.
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