Massachusetts Judge OK's State Funds To Restore Historic Church Windows

On Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts yesterday, a state trial court judge denied a preliminary injunction, refusing to block the use of state Community Preservation Act funds to restore the stained glass windows at the historic Trinity Methodist Church.  The Vineyard Gazette reports that the court found the plaintiffs had failed to show a likelihood of success on the merits of their claim that the expenditure would violate the federal Establishment Clause, as well as the provision in the  Massachusetts constitution that bars the use of public money for any private religious or charitable undertaking.