NY Schools spend more than a decade trying to exclude churches
Greg Baylor of CLS has this post on the Center Blog. It links to a brief that CLS has recently filed in ADF’s case, Bronx Household of Faith v. Bd. of Education of the City of New York and Community School District No. 10, No. 07-5291, which is pending before the 2nd Circuit once again. The post discusses some of the issues and Baylor writes:
. . . some governments are still reluctant to allow religious speakers to use public property. One such government is the New York City Board of Education, which has been defending its exclusion of the Bronx Household of Faith from meeting space for years . . .
ADF issued this press release in November, 2007. It reports: “For more than a decade, ADF has defended the equal access rights of Bronx Household of Faith as the New York City Department of Education has fought to keep the church from renting school facilities for Sunday meetings. ” (emphasis added)