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Article: Pizza man delivers inclusive village.(Thomas S. Monaghan's Ave Maria)(Brief article)
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- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- April 11, 2006
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Backtracking from comments he made last year, Domino's Pizza founder and Catholic stalwart Thomas S. Monaghan said March 3 that the town of Ave Maria, which he is bankrolling in southwest Florida, would now allow pornography and birth control--but its Ave Maria University would not. As for gays, they'd be welcome in the town, but the campus would not allow gay clubs.
The change in position, coming under pressure from the American Civil Liberties Union, provided little comfort to David Wynn, associate pastor of Church of the ...