{"id":22088,"date":"2023-12-17T00:40:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T00:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=22088"},"modified":"2023-12-17T00:40:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T00:40:20","slug":"city-coughing-up-825000-for-infringing-farmers-religious-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=22088","title":{"rendered":"City Coughing up $825,000 for Infringing Farmer\u2019s Religious Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nThis article originally appeared on WND.com<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Guest by post by Bob Unruh\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

A Michigan city is coughing up $825,000 because its officials infringed the religious rights of a local farmer by banning him from a market event.<\/p>\n

Officials with East Lansing also have agreed, going forward, to protect the religious rights of the owners of Country Mill Farms.<\/p>\n

The payment includes about $783,000 in lawyers\u2019 fees and another $41,000 in damages.<\/p>\n

It was a few months back that a federal district court decided Steve Tennes, the farm owner, was free to continue participating in the city\u2019s farmer\u2019s market, after city officials had banned him.<\/p>\n

It was back in 2017 that city officials excluded Tennes \u2013 specifically because of his religious beliefs.<\/p>\n

\u201cSteve and his family-run farm happily serve all customers as a valued vendor at East Lansing\u2019s farmer\u2019s market. The court was right to agree that the First Amendment protects Steve, like every other small business owner, to operate his business according to his faith and convictions,\u201d lawyer Kate Anderson said in a prepared statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re pleased to favorably settle this lawsuit on behalf of Steve so he and his family can continue doing what Country Mill does best, as expressed in its mission statement: \u201cglorifying God by facilitating family fun on the farm and feeding families.’\u201d<\/p>\n

The fight, like so many these days, erupted over the farmer\u2019s dedication to biblical standards.<\/p>\n

He posted on Facebook that he follows the Catholic Church\u2019s teachings about marriage, including when he allows weddings at his family\u2019s farm.<\/p>\n

That statement of faith prompted city officials to create a new policy that refused him permission to be at the farmer\u2019s market.<\/p>\n

WND<\/a> had reported when the ruling was handed down that the court found Tennes and his family had been forced by the city to \u201cto choose between following their religious beliefs and a government benefit for which they were otherwise qualified.\u201d<\/p>\n

The case has been in the courts for some six years. The court decision had found, \u201cDenying a person an equal share of the rights, benefits, and privileges enjoyed by other citizens because of her faith discourages religious activity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Country Mill Farms is a 120-acre, second-generation family farm in Charlotte, Michigan.<\/p>\n

They had sold organic products at the East Lansing farmers market since 2010, but in 2017, city officials decided to target them with a \u201cdiscretionary system of individual assessments\u201d for participants.<\/p>\n

Copyright 2023 WND News Center<\/a><\/p>\n

The post City Coughing up $825,000 for Infringing Farmer\u2019s Religious Rights<\/a> appeared first on The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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