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KFUO Interview with Alliance Defending Freedom’s Erik Stanley

March 16, 2016 | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm

As part of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod’s Free to be Faithful initiative, attorney Erik Stanley will be on kfuo.org at 2:30 p.m. Central on Wednesday, March 16, to discuss religious discrimination case Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia v. Pauley.

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The U.S. Supreme Court announced Jan. 15 that it will hear the case, which involves an LCMS church preschool, to determine if a state’s barring of the church from a government aid program is unconstitutional.

Stanley is senior legal counsel and director of the Church Project for Alliance Defending Freedom, which is representing Trinity Lutheran Church in Columbia, Mo. The LCMS is not a party to the litigation.

The case came about after Trinity sought to participate in the 2012 Playground Scrap Tire Surface Material Grant Program to resurface its playgrounds with the safer, recycled tire products provided by the supposedly neutral program.

“Children’s safety is just as important on church daycare playgrounds as it is on other daycare playgrounds,” Stanley said in a recent ADF press release. “Missouri and every state should understand that the U.S. Constitution prohibits religious hostility, which is what Missouri exhibited when it denied Trinity Lutheran’s scrap-tire grant application. This case has huge implications for state constitutional provisions across the nation that treat religious Americans and organizations as inferiors solely because of their religious identity.”

Join Stanley and Worldwide KFUO radio host Kip Allen to learn more about what’s at stake on kfuo.org at 2:30 p.m. Central time, March 16.

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Date:
March 16, 2016
Time:
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
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LCMS Free to be Faithful
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