Montana Baptists claim to be exempt from law
• Homophobia
So often we find ourselves looking on at the doings of the citizens of that high-class state, Montana. While the intellectual wattage isn't quite as low as, say, Wyoming, I wouldn't trust the collective brainpower of the local Baptists to power my porch light.
HELENA - The Alliance Defense Fund, a conservative religious legal group, filed a lawsuit in federal court against state Political Practices Commissioner Linda Vaughey late Monday on behalf of a Helena church, claiming that some of the election laws she enforces are unconstitutional.
The lawsuit came in response to the investigation that Vaughey will launch into the activities of the Canyon Ferry Road Baptist Church in East Helena. Gay rights advocates filed a complaint against the church with Vaughey two weeks ago, saying the church inappropriately held an event to support a proposed constitutional ban on gay marriage in Montana.