High court won't hear post office-church case

By ConnPolitics.tv Staff on Mar 3, 2010 | In News, Washington D.C. - Supreme Court | 4 feedbacks »

Manchester, Conn. (AP) – The U.S. Supreme Court has decided against hearing the case of a church-run store in Connecticut that was ordered to remove religious displays from an area of the shop that offers postal services.

The high court’s decision on Monday let stand a ruling made last August by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Sincerely Yours Inc., a Manchester store with a U.S. Postal Service contract operated by the Full Gospel Interdenominational Church.

The Circuit Court ruled that Sincerely Yours must remove religious materials from the postal service area.

The legal case began in 2003 when Manchester resident Bertram Cooper filed a lawsuit saying the church’s displays of religious materials violated a constitutional ban against government endorsement of religion.

Comment from: John [Visitor]
Better not use the US Postal Service to mail your Christmas Cards. May be taken as the postal service (a pseudo government service) providing religious transport.
03/03/10 @ 18:04
Comment from: John [Visitor]
This is getting to the point of rediculousness and I am not a particularly religious person.
03/03/10 @ 18:05
Comment from: GLENNA MACDONALD [Visitor]
A teacher forbid a student to make an idol for wicca and another student from makeing a cross,allowing them to do that may invite idols to satan,and aribic idols,persian,idols and ancient eygptian idols.I can see the point.A place for everything and everything in it`s place causes less confusion and deception.
~Peace Glenna~
03/04/10 @ 03:17
Comment from: Hosed by the system [Visitor]
I wouldnt want to hear such a full of crap case either...........
03/04/10 @ 13:52

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