Reply #55: "Allowing prayer services would mean taxpayers would be subsidizing.. [View All]

[Bridget Burke]

"... religious exercises."

Apparently some here did not bother to read the article. The rooms are not rented but available free. This is not a poor little church group, struggling to survive, but a big, fat media exercise.

In December, the Bush administration weighed in on the case, filing a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of the church. The administration said the government "has an interest in enforcement of First Amendment principles providing equal treatment of persons irrespective of their religious beliefs."

The Alliance Defense Fund is representing the Church. www.alliancedefensefund.org/main/default.aspx

The Alliance Defense Fund is a legal alliance defending the right to hear and speak the Truth through strategy, training, funding, and litigation.

Houston's Lakewood Church began in a converted feed store. Recently, it moved into the Summit--after the Houston Rockets built a new arena. It's one of the more sincere mega-churches--not overtly political & preaching a positive message rather than hellfire & brimstone. Not my style, surely (even if I weren't a non-Believer). But it's a sincere Church with humble beginnings--on PRIVATE PROPERTY.