Friday, August 13, 2010

In Montana, a Fight Over Separation of Church and Fairgrounds

Leaders of a Christian organization are convinced a group of atheists were successful in getting annual fellowship services moved from the Missoula County Fair, but church organizers say they’re determined to make the best of their new location. Still, churchgoers who worship at the service resent that any group could get them relocated. Sunday morning church is a long-standing tradition at the Missoula County Fair, thanks to the Missoula Christian Network’s planning. But that tradition fell by the wayside this year after complaints from a national atheist group, which called the service “a violation of civil rights.”...more

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