City Denies Permit to Remove Oak Trees from Notre Dame D'Haiti, New Church in Limbo

• we are not cubans so we do not deserve a good church. best thing to do, is to unseat some of those cubans thugs, who plain and simple have nothing to do with black.

• Since I was recently featured in another of the New Times' articles about the Archdiocese of Miami, I want to provide a rather recondite but important comment from one of my former professors, the eminent biblical scholar John Meier, quite apposite for this discussion: ""Yes, says Philo in a splurge of poetic exhuberance, the sabbath extends freedom to all kinds of trees and plants inasmuch as no one...is allowed to touch [them] on the sabbath." ---John Meier, A Marginal Jew, Volume Four, p. 247

• Anyone ever seen photos of Haiti? Those people hate trees. They've cut down almost every tree they can reach. NE 62nd Street and NE 2nd Avenue. Former Girls School. 100 to 150 year old oaks must be saved. Let the mega church move to be closer to its customers in Miramar and Broward County.

• Haitian Jean-Mary is not accurate. (He is lying.) The trees have been on the site for 100 to 150 years. The site was a farm, a family homestead and then a girls school. The classrooms are still on the site. The church and it's customers are very recent arrivals. Mr Jean-Mary is lying. He does not pay taxes. His neighbors pay taxes, he does not. The current tenant should show some respect for nature.

• "We are the ones who have been taking care of the trees for the longest," pointed out Rev. Reginald Jean-Mary last week. Trust me , rev, the trees get along really well without your help. "I understand the concerns of the citizens. They have a right to protest," he said. "But we are citizens. We pay our taxes. And we have a right to build a church." But you don't have a right to destroy historic, old growth trees. You reverend, are an arrogant ass.

• Hooray!  Common sense prevails. "We are the ones who have been taking care of the trees for the longest," pointed out Rev. Reginald Jean-Mary last week. So you then want to cut them all down?  Stupid.

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