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A California ministry is awaiting a verdict in a discrimination lawsuit filed in Contra Costa County.
Faith Center Church Evangelistic Ministries was using a local public library room for a meeting -- which included a Bible message and prayer -- until library officials threw them out. Alliance Defense Fund attorney Tim Chandler is handling the case.
"The library meeting is available to any organization to use for any purpose with the exception of, according to the library, religious services," the attorney notes. "And so they have excluded the church from being able to access their meeting room." Chandler believes library officials have gone to an extreme. "They even admitted that they would welcome the KKK, but churches are not [welcomed]," he points out. "I think that's a sad day for America when we start seeing that in our public facilities."
According to Chandler, federal courts have ruled that if one voice is permitted, a religious one cannot be prohibited. "We are going to continue to push that issue here at the Alliance Defense Fund to ensure that Christians are afforded equal access to public facilities, as the Constitution requires," he concludes.
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