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CO: Church?s effort to collect $1.5M from Pitkin County fails

By Alliance Alert

The Aspen Times: "The Grace Church of the Roaring Fork Valley isn't entitled to $1.5 million in damages from Pitkin County for delaying construction of a place of worship in Emma, a federal district judge has ruled . . . The church claimed its rights under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act was violated . . . 'As discussed below, the plaintiffs were not treated in a discriminatory manner. The plaintiffs were not pressured to abandon their beliefs or forego religious conduct. The only effect on religious exercise resulting from the denial of the special-use application was that the church could not use this particular property for its religious purposes.'" Grace Church of the Roaring Fork Valley et al v. County of Pitkin, CO, No. 05-cv-01673

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on September 23, 2010 (boomark / email).