Wake, NC - Residents in Wake County, North Carolina, will no longer have their religious speech censored when using the Cameron Village Regional Library. After Liberty Counsel's application to use the library's meeting room was denied twice because of religious content in our presentations, we filed a federal lawsuit. Judge Louise W. Flanagan entered a judgment against Cameron Village Regional Library on all counts of our lawsuit, and the library agreed to remove all offending bans on religion.
"Any policy that expressly prohibits meetings based on the religious viewpoint of the program is simply unconstitutional," said Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel. "The Supreme Court has struck down countless attempts by local government bodies to remove religion from the public arena. Public libraries are a marketplace of ideas, and governments cannot censor religion from the marketplace."
"Despite the law and these judgments, public libraries across America continue to censor religion," Staver pointed out. "Of all places, a public library should not only understand but strive to uphold the First Amendment."
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