Suit Claims Religious Discrimination In Barring of Faith-Based Substance Abuse Program From County Jail

Yesterday's Santa Rosa (FL) Press Gazette reports that a federal religious discrimination lawsuit was filed Friday by Milton, Florida's First Apostolic Church seeking to prohibit Santa Rosa County Sheriff Wendell Hall from excluding the church's faith-based Alcohol and Chemical Treatment Series program from the Santa Rosa County Jail. The lawsuit alleges that the decision to remove the Church's volunteers from the jail was taken by the Santa Rosa County Inter Faith Board, and involves a "doctrinal dispute" over proper baptism rites.