Federal court strikes down East Lansing’s anti-Catholic rule for farmers market

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When the government of East Lansing, Michigan, learned that an orthodox Catholic apple farmer had infiltrated its farmer’s market, it acted quickly to remedy that.

Nonetheless, the city went ahead and changed its farmer’s market guidelines just to exclude Tennes. The city specified that every vendor must “comply with the City of East Lansing’s Civil Rights ordinances and the public policy against discrimination contained in Chapter 22 of the East Lansing City Code while at the ELFM and as a general business practice.”

The discrimination to which the ruling class of East Lansing objected was occurring outside of East Lansing and certainly outside of the farmer’s market. Nobody accused Tennes of discriminating in his apple sales or anything like that.but to keep out those whom they see as. A Catholic farmer who adheres to Catholic teaching on marriage and conscience counts as ain East Lansing. If he sets foot on the public farmer’s market, he’s profaning holy ground.

Law isn't supposed to deem some people as bad just because of their beliefs. The new rule was clearly targeted at Country Mills Farms, and the whole scheme gave the city employees vast enforcement discretion. For instance, if a farmer who ran a farmer’s market discriminated against faithful Catholics, East Lansing would

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