What freedom of religion?

The Dallas Housing Authority recently overstepped its bounds. For many years, Lake Highlands United Methodist Church has held a worship service at one of the Dallas projects. Many of the elderly people who live there cannot get out to go to church. But clueless Housing Authority president MaryAnn Russ all of a sudden decided that the worship services violate the separation of church and state, and told the church they could no longer have services there. However, a HUD spokesman said the Fair Housing Act did not prohibit religious activity in common areas of public housing as long as the activity did not result in unequal treatment of residents.

I guess Ms. Russ never heard of the First Amendment -- that little thing that says the government cannot stifle religion or force it upon anyone. Other than that, religion is none of the government's business. At any rate, Ms. Russ intended to stick to her guns, but a couple of days later the newspaper reported that she had done an Obama and reversed her decision. Sounds to me like she just doesn't like Christians.

"Church services halted at complex for seniors." The Dallas Morning News; March 4, 2010; p. 10B.