AG Coleman Leads Coalition Defending Kentucky Church’s Right to Build Shrine

AG Coleman leads coalition defending Kentucky church’s right to build shrine

AG Coleman leads coalition defending Kentucky church’s right to build shrine

Kentucky attorney general asks U.S. Supreme Court to allow Catholic church to build shrine

Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman is leading 20 states in a religious liberty case at the U.S. Supreme Court.(Photo by Erica Shires/Getty Images)Republican Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow a Northern Kentucky church to build an outdoor shrine.  The move is another step in a years-long legal battle for the church, Our Lady of Lourdes parish, which is operated by a Roman Catholic religious…

Kentucky AG seeks religious liberty protections for church shrine

FRANKFORT – Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman announced Tuesday that he is leading a 20-state coalition to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to clear the way for a Northern Kentucky church to build an outdoor shrine on its property. In a brief, Attorney General Coleman and the states urge the nation’s highest court to take up the case and underscore the fundamental protections of religious practice under the Religious Land Use and Institutional…