Monday, August 01, 2005

RLUIPA and Religious Services In Homes and Offices

An article in yesterday's Miami Herald focuses on conflicts in cities around the country when religious services are regularly held in homes and office buildings. The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act gives houses of worship a good deal of leverage against zoning officials. Some neighbors think they are wrongly being portrayed as anti-religious when they object to the noise and parking problems involved.