Rutherford Institute Challenges Ban Forbidding Churches from Renting Property
Rutherford Institute Challenges Ban Forbidding Churches from Renting School Property for Sunday Worship Services
www.rutherford.org
April 12, 2011
LAKE CHARLES, La - Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute have filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Open Gate Western Heritage Church challenging the constitutionality of a school board's action barring churches from using school facilities for Sunday services, although other community organizations are allowed to use school facilities outside school hours for meetings and events.
Open Gate Western Heritage Church has held Sunday services on property rented from the Calcasieu Parish School Board since 2008. In late February 2011, the church was told that it could no longer use the elementary school cafeteria it had been renting because its services constituted "worship." The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, alleges that the Calcasieu Parish School Board's policy forbidding the use of school facilities for "worship" activities violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
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www.rutherford.org
April 12, 2011
LAKE CHARLES, La - Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute have filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Open Gate Western Heritage Church challenging the constitutionality of a school board's action barring churches from using school facilities for Sunday services, although other community organizations are allowed to use school facilities outside school hours for meetings and events.
Open Gate Western Heritage Church has held Sunday services on property rented from the Calcasieu Parish School Board since 2008. In late February 2011, the church was told that it could no longer use the elementary school cafeteria it had been renting because its services constituted "worship." The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, alleges that the Calcasieu Parish School Board's policy forbidding the use of school facilities for "worship" activities violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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