House of Worship Protection Act challenged by federal lawsuit

MISSOURI
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Church, meet State. A law prohibiting the disruption of worship services in Missouri is set to go into effect next Tuesday. But first it must face a court challenge from the American Civil Liberties Union. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Political Fix reports that the ACLU branch covering eastern Missouri filed a lawsuit yesterday in federal court on behalf of the Survivors Network of Those Abused By Priests and Voice of the Faithful-Kansas City.

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