BLOCKBUSTER $50M Discrimination suit against Boulder County may have implications for Longmont City Council
Holy House of Worship, Batman!
Yesterday, in this blockbuster court ruling, Boulder County lost a key action in Denver's Federal Disctrict Court - with $50 million in damages at stake. Seems the McCoy and Benker are not the only ones persecuting people of Christian faith in Boulder County.
Since the City Council is pretty intent on spending our tax revenues on lawyers, they may want to get "lawyered up" with an expensive Denver defense firm and then send them this ruling (Download)!!! Of course, siamese twins Benker/McCoy read this blog daily, so this is the easiest way to get it to them...
New York Times
Colorado Church Wins Ruling on Expansion
Published: April 2, 2008
A federal judge in Denver gave a
preliminary victory to a rapidly growing Christian church that wants to expand
on land designated for decades as open space.
The judge, Robert E. Blackburn of
Federal District Court, refused to dismiss a lawsuit by the group challenging a
Colorado county’s refusal to allow the expansion.
The lawsuit, filed against Boulder
County by the Rocky Mountain Christian Church in Niwot, Colo., is an important
test of a federal statute aimed at protecting churches and other houses of
worship from discriminatory zoning.
The church says it has outgrown its
current home, on a 54-acre site in one of the buffer zones the county
established decades ago to preserve open space around its towns and villages.
In February 2006, the county refused to permit the church to double the size of
its buildings. The church sued under the federal Religious Land Use and
Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000, saying the decision limiting its growth
also limited its religious liberty.
Judge Blackburn concluded
Tuesday that the case presented too many factual disputes to be
dismissed at this stage and scheduled it for trial in November.
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