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?Rush Limbaugh: The First Amendment, zoning laws and the Ground Zero mosque?

By Alliance Alert

Rush Limbaugh transcript of August 12th: "RUSH: 'Ladies and gentlemen, zoning laws. I'm sure have encountered them. Zoning laws tell churches where they can and can't go all the time. There's a group out there called the Alliance Defense Fund. The last few years they've been running all over the country suing cities and counties and states over churches being turned down by zoning boards, and they have not yet won a case, I don't think. So zoning laws already dictate where you -- the First Amendment's got nothing whatsoever to do with building a church wherever you want to put one.'" | Contrast ADF press release, June 25, 2010: NH church receives more than $1.1 million over unconstitutional zoning restrictions | more RLUIPA related ADF press releases

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 13, 2010 (boomark / email).