Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast. I'm your host

John Delinn. It is August 9th, 2024 and we have some breaking news. The thumbnail is Mormon Church

loses battle with with Fairview, Texas, over its attempts to construct

a temple that is way too high for its basic city ordinances because I'm a Texan

myself I've subtitled this episode don't mess with Texas because that's

appropriate if we if we want to pull up the latest article from the Houston Chronicle,

which was my hometown paper growing up.

Small North Texas town rejects more. town Church of Jesus Christ of Latter States plan to build a 65 foot tall temple with a

173 foot tall spire in the outskirts of the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area.

There's a picture of the proposed

temple. This is a 44,000 square-foot temple in Fairview, Texas, that would

include a 173-foot tall spire.

That's kind of just the headlines, that's the teaser.

We have already covered this story a little bit

on Mormon Stories podcast, but it's being covered extensively on Mormonish

podcast with Rebecca Biblioteca and Landon and of course Nemo the Mormon his amazing YouTube channel he's also been covering it and I'm just

delighted that you know we had a city council I think there was a four or five hour city council meeting recently, and we want an update because this news is important and the most shocking news of all, it looks like the Mormon Church is going to sue Fairview Texas for not bending to its attempts to violate the zoning laws of this secular independent city.

So to help us understand, to update us on this amazing story,

we have back the Rebecca Biblioteca.

Hey Rebecca! Hey, Johnbiette.

Hey, John, this is going to be great.

I'm excited.

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