Churches of the West: Churches of the West: City of Cody issues building...

Churches of the West: Churches of the West: City of Cody issues building...: We posted this yesterday.  Churches of the West: City of Cody issues building permit for LDS Temple. : Citing, amongst other things, a lack ...

This certainly has been an extraordinary even.  Most new churches are simply built, with little major observation regarding that, and typically no controversy.  Here, the opposite has occured.

I'm not familiar enough with the internal politics of Cody to know what's really going on here.  At the 30,000 foot level, the steeple will dominate the Cody skyline, and that is at least the stated objection underlying this matter.

Of interest, an identical, to my understanding, structure is being built in Casper with no controversy at all.  But then, it sits down below the skyline.  

As an additional aside, the LDS church has been expanding regional temples a great deal.  This is a marked departure from its past practices, in which there were very few, and at one time, just one.  At the same time, in a story that's hardly been noted, the LDS have been hemorrhaging members at a massive rate, something that's also a major change from as recently as a decade or so ago.