Government: “STOP PRAYING!”
December 29, 2016
Government: “STOP PRAYING!”
A nun prays in Saint Peter's Square, a day after the election of Pope Francis, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of...
Government officials in Kansas claim that the First Amendment protects merely your right to choose your religion, and nothing more. First Liberty is representing the case of a resident told to "stop praying" in her own home.
Mary Ann Sause was allegedly told to stop praying in her own home one night when police officers came to her apartment to investigate a noise complaint.
In September, First Liberty and volunteer attorneys appealed her case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, claiming that the officers had violated her religious freedom rights by telling her to stop praying.
First Liberty appealed the district court’s ruling on September 28, 2016 to say that the officer’s order to stop praying had indeed burdened her ability to exercise her religion.
The opponents filed their reply brief on October 31, arguing that Sause’s First Amendment right was not violated since the First Amendment only protects the right to choose one’s religion.
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