Kavanaugh questions restrictions on churches using preservation grants - The Washington Post

The justices appointed by President Trump to the Supreme Court said Monday that the court should protect the ability of churches and other religious organizations to receive historic preservation funds from local governments. Such a case should not be “difficult,” Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh wrote in a statement joined by Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Samuel A. Alito Jr. Like Kavanaugh, Gorsuch was nominated by Trump. “Barring religious organizations because they are religious from a general historic preservation grants program is pure discrimination against religion,” Kavanaugh wrote...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/kavanaugh-questions-restrictions-on-churches-using-preservation-grants/2019/03/04/399cf15a-3e96-11e9-a0d3-1210e58a94cf_story.html

Kentucky’s Governor Gave Away a Historic State Park, For Free, to a Church | Hemant Mehta | Friendly Atheist | Patheos

Boone Station State Historic Site was a 46-acre park in Kentucky commemorating the place where legendary pioneer Daniel Boone lived for a few years starting in 1779. It’s not all that exciting — just a lot of open space, really — but around 1992, a man named Robert C. Strader donated the land to the state of Kentucky with the desire to have it turned into a historical site. If that didn’t happen within 15 years, then he wanted to land to be given to his church. It soon turned into a state park. Success!...

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/01/31/kentuckys-governor-gave-away-a-historic-state-park-for-free-to-a-church/