The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to consider whether a religious institution has a right to build a shrine to the Virgin Mary on residential property next to its Kentucky church.
The church’s owner — a nonprofit formed by Roman Catholic priests — claims the Kentucky Supreme Court misconstrued a federal law and erroneously ruled against its plan to build a shrine on a residential plot that it bought for the project.
The nation’s highest court will hear arguments in the coming months in its latest case involving religious rights.
A neighborhood family, concerned that the project would exacerbate traffic problems, successfully challenged the zoning board’s decision in state court. The family also opposed the group’s Supreme Court petition, arguing there is no basis for the nation’s highest court to intervene in the local zoning dispute.
The opponents say the church group knew that zoning ordinances barred it from building the shrine on neighboring residential land when it acquired the property. The opponents also argue that the group hasn’t demonstrated why it couldn’t build the shrine on church land.
Religious freedom doesn’t allow you to make everything else worse. This seems exactly like the kind of thing that should be shut down.
The US is suffering a catastrophic housing crisis and fucking religious nutjobs are buying residential property to build useless shrines to mythical characters?
Remind me where in the Bible Jesus said “use thy exorbitant wealth to deprive the unhoused of housing and instead build statues of my mom.”
The church will win 9-0
They win 7-2 worst case
It will be 6-3 or maybe 5-4. The exact same outcome, but the propaganda machines will spin it as a narrow decision.
