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Rick Esenberg: Banishing Faith to the Upper Room

By Alliance Defense Fund

Jordan Lorence posts below on a decision by a divided panel of the 9th Circuit in Faith Center Church v. Glover. The Court held that a public library that has opened its doors to "meetings, programs, or activities of educational, cultural, or community interest" may nevertheless exclude religious worship. The Court avoids the Supreme Court's equal access jurisprudence by characterizing the exclusion as permissable "content" as opposed to "viewpoint" discrimination. Key to that finding seems to be...(read more)

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on September 25, 2006 (boomark / email).