The Buddhist Channel website reports today (September 15,2010) that the U.S. Department of Justice has filed a religious discrimination lawsuit against the Southern California city of Walnut, claiming it unfairly denied a permit to a group seeking to build and run a Buddhist center.
The lawsuit -- filed this week in Los Angeles -- seeks a court order saying the city violated federal law and an injunction to prohibit Walnut officials from discriminating against the Chung Tai Zen Center and other religious organizations.
Federal officials say Walnut denied the center's application in January 2008.
They added that Walnut had not denied any other religious group a permit that had sought one since at least 1980.
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