“Saratoga Springs Residents Voice Opinions Over Temple Announcement”

The San Gabriel Mission — I passed by Mission San Gabriel Arcángel — shown here in a 1905 view taken when I was just seventy-two years old — at least once or twice virtually every day while I was growing up in California. It was just across from my high school. Yet, curiously, I don’t remember it ever causing me any emotional disturbance at all.
(Public domain image from Wikimedia Commons)

http://kutv.com/news/local/saratoga-springs-residents-speak-out-over-temple-announcement

I confess to being more than a little bit puzzled by the fact that some folks are always “angered” by the announcement of a new temple. Even in Utah Valley’s little Saratoga Springs. Really. Check out the comments following the relevant articles in the Salt Lake Tribune (if you can stomach them), and in the news media up in Idaho.

I grew up in a suburban Los Angeles County town that was graced with at least one synagogue, more churches than I ever counted, a large Eastern Orthodox house of worship, a few small Buddhist institutions, and a Spanish colonial mission (which was the centerpiece of the design on the city’s official stationery and of its seal). I can’t remember even a moment’s “anger” about any of this.

“Saratoga Springs residents voice opinions over temple announcement”