Breaking: Knights of Columbus Sue After Park Service Denies Longstanding Memorial Day Service, Calling it Demonstration

First Liberty Institute:

Law firms ask court to force NPS to grant permit for longstanding service in cemetery honoring fallen soldiers now prohibited due to new policy against “religious services.” 

Petersburg, VA—Today, First Liberty Institute and the international law firm McGuireWoods LLP filed a motion for temporary restraining order against the National Park Service in Petersburg, Virginia after officials prohibited the Knights of Columbus Petersburg Council 694 from holding its annual Memorial Day Mass service in the Poplar Grove National Cemetery.  The Knights have held the service at the park every year since at least the 1960s.

You can read the motion here.

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