Quote Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit
Quote Originally Posted by Goofball
I think he just wants to rant about people who are acting perfectly within their rights of property ownership, but are still offensive in how they are exercising their property rights.

However, I'm curious CR. If my house was directly across the street from your kid's elementary school, and I decided that by way of exercising my rights to do whatever I wanted with my property I would erect (pun intended) a 30' tall statue of Mohammed doing Jesus doggie-style in my front yard, would you still be entirely supportive of my rights as a property owner? Or would you sign the petition that would surely circulate among my neighbors demanding that I get rid of my modern art masterpiece?
I'd oppose it on basis of obscenity and public display of indecent material to children. I wouldn't oppose a sign saying 'praise Allah', but pornographic material I will oppose.
So (just like the rest of us, I suspect), you believe that people are free to do what they want with their private property, unless it happens to be something you find to be extremely objectionable or detrimental to others. So really, there is no black and white to the issue as your initial question implied.

For what it's worth, I suspect that I agree with you on this issue. I may or may not grumble and complain about the property use described by the OP, but I would certainly not deny that property owner his right to buid a home to his liking on his own property. However, I would certainly object to somebody putting up the statue I described if it was in my neighborhood, and would do everything I could to make him remove it.