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For Tom Monaghan, the devout Catholic who founded Domino’s Pizza and is now bankrolling most of the initial $400 million cost of the project, Ave Maria is the culmination of a lifetime devoted to spreading his own strict interpretation of Catholicism.
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Though he says nonbelievers are welcome, Monaghan clearly wants the community to embody his conservative values. He controls all the commercial real estate in town (along with his developing partner, Barron Collier Cos.) and is asking pharmacies not to carry contraceptives. If forced to choose between two otherwise comparable drugstores, Barron Collier would favor the one that honored that request, says its president and CEO, Paul Marinelli.
Since he is allowing "heathens" to come and live there, I am sure he will be able to keep everything running in his (and Mel Gibson's) vision. But where do we draw the line? We are not able to have male-only clubs or white-only schools, but it is alright to build a whole town that is catholic-morals-only? What if the KKK wants to build a town?
Also, what if someone's child went out of the town to get brith control? Would the parents be removed from the town?