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20 August, 2004
20 August 2004A 2000 federal law, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, which prohibits local land-use regulations from imposing a "substantial burden" on the exercise of religion, will soon come before the Oregon State Supreme Court. City officials in West Linn, Oregon, denied a plan to build a Mormon Church in a residential area, reports Lisa Grace Lednicer in The Oregonian, and were brought to court by the church, which claimed the city had interfered with their religious freedom.
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