New York Churches Score Court Victory

from Stand Firm by Jackie

From OneNewsNow

New York City churches will be able to meet in public schools again this weekend.
The move comes after a court granted a preliminary injunction against the city’s unique-in-the-nation prohibition on worship services in vacant public school buildings on weekends.
Friday’s decision came in the wake of a temporary order that allowed the Bronx Household of Faith to meet for 10 days.

A spokesman for the Alliance Defense Fund, Jordan Lorence, says ” churches that have been helping communities for years can once again offer the hope that empty buildings can’t.”
Lorence says “the city can’t single out religious expression and treat it worse than the expression of everybody else. The court’s order allows churches and other religious groups to meet in empty school buildings on weekends just as non-religious groups do while the lawsuit proceeds. The city’s view of the First Amendment is wrong, and we intend to continue to demonstrate that in court.”