Liberty Counsel filed an Amicus brief in the U. S. Supreme Court on its own behalf and for the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference-CONEL to end discrimination against churches in the case of Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia v. Pauley. The National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference-CONEL is America's largest Hispanic Christian evangelical organization representing more than 500,000 churches throughout the world.

The case involves Trinity Lutheran Church, which runs a preschool and day care center with a public playground. The Church applied for a state grant that provides for the purchase of recycled tires that will provide a safer and more accessible playground surface for neighborhood and disabled children. Despite placing fifth among 44 applicants, Trinity Lutheran was denied, solely because it is a church.

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