U.S. Sues Village For Religious Discrimination
February 21, 2020
4:44 am
The United States Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against the Village of Walthill in Nebraska for alleged religious discrimination against a church.
In a statement released on Thursday, it stated that Walthill denied Light of the World Gospel Ministries, a nondenominational and multi-ethnic Christian body, a permit to construct a new church building.
The department alleged that in the same period the village approved construction of a library, an education centre and other nonreligious places of gathering in the locality.
It said the alleged action was a violation of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalised Persons Act …
