Jordan Lorence: Give churches space in vacant city schools

ADF Attorney Jordan Lorence writing in the NY Daily News: “All these groups are asking from the city is the ability to use vacant space on weekends just as virtually any other group – from Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts to unions to local choruses – can. The churches apply the same way every other group does. They pay the same rental rates the schools require other groups to pay. And Bronx Household is even halfway through constructing its own building across the street. But the city keeps saying no. The city should welcome congregations to use its vacant space on weekends. Churches can be some of the strongest glue that holds often fragile communities together. But the city wants them out.”