The Orthodox Union joined with Christian groups in a friend-of-the-court brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review an appeals court ruling barring religious groups from using public school facilities for religious services during non-school hours. The case involves an evangelical Christian church that was denied a request to use a gymnasium in a Bronx, N.Y., middle school for its weekly religious services because the New York City Board of Education policy prohibits such uses. The religious groups petitioning the Supreme Court said the city’s policy violates religious citizens’ constitutional rights.
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