A Florida Home Owner’s Association (HOA) is preventing a ministry from hosting a veterans fundraiser solely because the hosting ministry is a Christian organization.

Unfortunately for the HOA, their decision violates the Fair Housing Act which expressly prohibits discrimination based on a person or organization’s religious views.

Liberty Counsel is now involved, and we intend to put an immediate STOP to this latest outrageous attempt to discriminate against Christians.

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Music for Life Ministries had an agreement to hold a Christmas fundraiser concert benefitting the Tunnels to Towers Foundation, a charity for the families of soldiers and first responders injured or killed in the line of duty. The concert was to be held at Kings Point Veteran's Theater, located in the Sun City Center 55+ master planning community, just south of Tampa, FL.

But when the HOA’s theater manager realized Music for Life was sponsoring the fundraiser, he cancelled the agreement solely because Ministries for Life is a Christian organization.

The HOA venue manager told Music for Life Ministries he believes that because a religious ministry is hosting this veterans benefit, the event would somehow “deceive” attendees.

The venue manager continued, stating the HOA was “bringing back an old rule” which prohibited renting the community center theater to ANY religious organization.

Music for Life reiterated that this benefit is NOT religious in nature but held in conjunction with one of the country’s best known veteran charities. But the HOA venue manager didn’t care. He insisted that because Music for Life Ministries has the word “ministry” in its name, the event must be cancelled.

But the HOA event manager’s decision is against the law.

Title VIII of the 1968 Civil Rights Act, also known as the Fair Housing Act, expressly prohibits discrimination based on “race, color, religion, sex, familial status, or national origin.”

We’ve successfully handled similar cases in the past, most notably when an HOA tried to run a Christian men's residential program out of their community. Thanks to Liberty Counsel, that attempt to discriminate against Christians FAILED. 

With God’s help and your support, we won’t let the Sun City Center HOA discriminate against Music for Life Ministries and the Tunnels to Towers Foundation. 

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