Original Photography by Pai Shih (Licensed, cropped from original)
Original Photography by Pai Shih (Licensed, cropped from original)

We’ve been monitoring news items involving local government, religion, and land use that may be of interest to our readers.  Below is what has caught our attention.

Original photography by brandi (Licensed)
Original photography by brandi (Licensed)

After a brief summer hiatus, RLUIPA Defense is back with another edition of the Round-Up.  What better way to kick things off than with news about the Satanic Temple of Detroit, which recently unveiled “The Satanic Temple Baphomet monument” at an approximately 700-person party

Original Photography by Pai Shih (Licensed, cropped from original)

Here are news items involving local government, religion, and land use that have caught our attention.

  • Religion Clause Blog reports that Indiana’s First Church of Cannabis is using the state’s recently enacted religious freedom law to protect its founder and

Below are news items from the past week involving local government, religion, and land use that have caught our attention.

  • Coral Springs, Florida may allow Satanist Chaz Stevens to begin a City Commission meeting with an invocation honoring Satan in September or October. However, Mayor Skip Campbell will first meet with commission members to discuss

We’re a little late with the round-up this week, but promise to continue our effort to bring you interesting stories from the intersection of religion and government.

  • Mayfair, Pennsylvania residents feel disappointment after renovated, historic theater fails to bring live entertainment to downtown, but will likely house Kingdom Life Christian Center, philly.com reports.
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We bring you more interesting news from the world of land use, religion and government:

  • The Chicago Tribune reports that the Village of La Grange, Illinois Planning Commission is considering a proposed zoning code amendment that “would require churches to obtain a special use permit for certain activities, including scouting groups, not deemed part

Here are some developments that we are following involving religious land use and the intersection of religion and local government.

  • New Life Evangelistic Center, which runs a homeless shelter in downtown St. Louis, and the City of St. Louis to explore potential resolution to RLUIPA suit involving either City’s blessing for Church to host up

RLUIPA Defense is excited to bring you week two of the RLUIPA Round-Up – a weekly run through of recent religious land use disputes and other matters involving local government and religion throughout the country, as well as other stories that are important to monitor, or are at least pretty entertaining.

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Welcome to the inaugural edition of RLUIPA Round-Up, where we run through recent religious land use disputes and other matters involving local government and religion throughout the country. Some of the items below include updates of cases that we have previously reported, pending zoning applications for religious use, or other topics such as religious invocation