DETROIT (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union in Michigan and two other groups have filed a federal lawsuit seeking an injunction against a Michigan city’s ban on an atheist booth in a municipal building.
The groups say the Detroit suburb of Warren lets a church group run a “prayer station,” distribute religious materials, discuss religious beliefs and pray with visitors in a City Hall atrium but refuses to let atheist Douglas Marshall use the same space.
Their lawsuit was filed Wednesday in Detroit on behalf of the Warren resident. It says Marshall’s request in April to install a “reason station” was rejected by Mayor Jim Fouts.
Fouts says the “reason station” would be diametrically opposed to prayer and that he “will not accept a group” disparaging another group.
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