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To: MrKatykelly

Ocean Grove in NJ was a similar community.
They lost a suit several years ago.


32 posted on 02/11/2018 3:34:14 AM PST by aumrl (let's keep it real Conservatives)
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To: aumrl
Ocean Grove in NJ was a similar community.

They lost a suit several years ago.

There are similar Christian camp meeting communities up and down the East coast. We don't live in OG, but my father lived there after WW1 (!), we're close enough that I go there most days to walk or jog, my wife sings in the summer choir, and my daughter plays (occasionally now) in the summer band. One reason that we've never purchased a house there is that the town is mainly 100+ year old wooden houses that are all built a few feet from each other. Another is that the streets were planned before the invention of the motor vehicle and so parking is an issue every summer. But for all its quirks and quirky residents we still love the place.

Some years ago the Camp Meeting Association required all motor vehicles removed from the town on Sunday and eventually the state's SC ruled that unconstitutional. A newspaper deliveryman sued claiming that his business was hurt because of the restriction and the court agreed. You can still see the iron loops from the chains that they used to block the entrances on Sundays. They still close the beaches on Sunday until Noon.

I imagine that there are still deed restrictions -- property "owners" actually have a 99 year lease and the land is technically owned by the Camp Meeting Association.

But I don't see how community deed restrictions that discriminate could possibly be enforceable now in 2018 -- or could have been for the last 50 years.


50 posted on 02/11/2018 5:00:29 AM PST by Sooth2222 (O'Rourke's Circumcision Precept: You can take 10 percent off the top of anything.)
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To: aumrl

Do you have info on that suit? What I remember as a resident there is that they had to unlock the gate facing Rte 35 which was locked on the Sabbath til 12pm. All cars had to be removed on Saturday night. The courts shot that down.

Today, you still can’t go onto the beaches until 12pm on a Sunday. We also erected a gate on the lake facing Asbury Park to stop thieves from breaking into houses in OG. That got the little town in trouble with the libs too but when crime was cut way down, they gave up.

When gays starting taking over the joint in the 2000s, they wanted to get married on the beach. The Methodist Association then proceeded to ban marriages on the beach altogether which is why we can’t have nice things.


51 posted on 02/11/2018 5:02:47 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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