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Religious liberties are threatened as happened with the first presbyterian church of auburn, what should that church do? >> they need to go to libertyinstitute.org and get ahold of us, but they need to understand that not only does the constitution protect their fundamental right, engage religious liberty on their own church property, but there was a law passed in 2000, it's a long name, the religious land use and institutionalized persons act, or what we call rluipa that protects them on their own property. city officials cannot zone out community service and acts of worship. look, if this ci...
Legal battle with the city. joining me now is pastor eileen winter of the first presbyterian church and jeremy dice, senior counsel of liberty institute. all right, pastor winter, this blows my mind. you've got a glee camp for kids that's good for them and helpful, keeps them off the streets, gives them something positive to do. they pay a little bit of a fee, not everything that it costs to just help out with the expenses. were you shocked when the city of auburn came and said well, you're running a commercial operation here? >> dumbfounded. absolutely dumbfounded. >> and if this were to stan...
>> what has been the reaction of the community? not just in your church family but in the larger community of auburn? >> the larger community is majorly supportive. just really supportive of us. >> you know jeremy from a legal perspective, if this were to stand what happens across the country? i mean, people say, well, i don't live in auburn new york, it doesn't touch me but it does touch them wherever they live if this were to stand. why? >> city governments should not be censoring or zoning out community service. that's the first thing here. and frankly, eileen and her church is on very stro...
Legal battle with the city. joining me now is pastor eileen winter of the first presbyterian church and jeremy dice senior counsel of liberty institute. all right, pastor winter this blows my mind. you've got a glee camp for kids that's good for them and helpful, keeps them off the streets, gives them something positive to do. they pay a little bit of a fee, not everything that it costs to just help out with the expenses. were you shocked when the city of auburn came and said well, you're running a commercial operation here? >> dumbfounded. absolutely dumbfounded. >> and if this were to stand,...