OUR POSITION

Our concern is whether this project would create a concentrated enclave that functions socially, economically, culturally, or legally apart from the surrounding community while placing major burdens on rural infrastructure, schools, emergency services, and taxpayers. We have serious concerns about density, environmental impact, and transparency.

We chose “One Nation Under God” as our public message because it expresses the founding principle that America is not meant to be divided into separate civilizational, religious, or ideological enclaves. The phrase is not a call to deny anyone’s constitutional rights, nor is it an attack on peaceful religious belief. Muslims, like all Americans, may live, worship, and own property in this country, and those rights must be respected. But under our constitutional system, religious liberty protects worship, conscience, and private belief; it does not authorize the establishment of a rival legal order or a separate civil structure above American law. We affirm that our nation has a biblically based moral and constitutional order, rooted in accountability to God, equal justice under law, and civic unity. That is why we oppose any development - Islamic or otherwise - that would encourage separation from the surrounding community, weaken assimilation, or create a self-contained population organized around a competing cultural, religious, or legal framework. No religious legal system - whether Sharia, canon law, or any other - may be elevated above the Constitution, state law, due process, equal protection, property rights, zoning law, criminal law, or the civil rights of American citizens. “One Nation Under God” reminds us that America’s strength depends on unity under a common constitutional order, not the formation of isolated enclaves within it.