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The Queen of Angels Catholic bookstore in Jacksonville, Florida, came to an agreement with the city Thursday, saying that the shop constitutes an “exempt religious organization” with the right to express beliefs on traditional marriage and sexuality, according to court documents.
Following a federal court ruling, the City of Jacksonville has exempted a Catholic bookstore from a law that “would have required the bookstore to use pronouns of customers contrary to their sex and would have stopped the bookstore from explaining its beliefs about gender identity on its website,” according to the store’s counsel.
Even though Queen of Angels is a for-profit bookstore that isn’t run or operated by a church or ministry, the settlement states that it still fits the qualifi...
A Catholic bookstore owner has received an exception from an ordinance in Jacksonville, Florida, that will let her post her policy against using pronouns that run contrary to a customer's sex.
A bookstore in Florida came to a settlement with the city of Jacksonville and agreed that the shop constituted an "exempt religious organization."