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Ex-Gilbert mayor to defy code with ?illegal prayer session?

By Alliance Alert

Arizona Republic: "Former Mayor Steve Berman says he'll hold an 'illegal prayer session' at his Gilbert home next Monday, in defiance of a town code that bans religious assemblies in private homes . . . Last week the Alliance Defense Fund, a Scottsdale-based religious legal group, appealed to the Planning Commission to overturn a provision in the zoning code that prohibited church meetings inside residences . . . The Alliance Defense Fund noted that the code does not prohibit weekly Cub Scouts meetings, Monday Night Football parties or even large business parties within private homes. 'But if it's a church meeting, all of a sudden that's being singled out,' Blomberg said."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on March 16, 2010 (boomark / email).