Church owners say they’re being bullied by small-town government (Perry, WI)

Be careful about giving your local town board the power to control the land and it's uses within the community. No matter how "nice" and "friendly" your "neighbors" are who fill the seats of the local town board, they won't always be the ones who fill the seats and they won't always have the appetite of a bird when it comes to power and control. They will succomb to the whims of their own fancies and the fancies of those who think that it is moral and just to take stuff away from people who are not using it in the way that they think is best, just because they have some self-granted legal authority to do so.

Just ask the good caretakers at an historic 19th century church in Perry, Wisconsin. Their local town board has decided that it is in the best interests of the town and the church to destroy the historic landscape surrounding the church. And they're using the power of eminent doman as well as the church itself to raise the money that they need to do it.