CNN reports:
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced an initiative on Wednesday aimed at boosting the Justice Department’s role protecting religious institutions from cumbersome zoning rules.
“Under the laws of this country, government cannot discriminate against people based on their religion — not in law enforcement, not in grant-making, not in hiring and not in local zoning laws,” Sessions said in a statement announcing the Place to Worship Initiative.
The announcement said the Justice Department would expand awareness of a 2000 law to shield religious institutions from overly restrictive zoning regulations and would provide “additional training and resources for federal prosecutors,” with an inaugural community outreach event in New Jersey later this month.
You WILL have a megachurch in your neighborhood whether the zoning laws allow it or not. It’s what Je$u$ would want.
Jeff Sessions discussed the discrimination that religious schools face when officials try to “keep them out of their backyard by abusing zoning law.” pic.twitter.com/qSaHH5Qs1U
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