1st amendment. Seems to me, but strangling the size of a church, a government could indeed persecute a religion.
"1st amendment. Seems to me, but strangling the size of a church, a government could indeed persecute a religion."
It's not strangling a religion. It's asking a mega-church to build in an area that will support the traffic, noise, etc.
Would you feel the same if the local mosque would build a 1000-person building at the end of your street? Would you support their right to have a big building, AND broadcast the calls to prayer via loudspeaker?
That county government will be spending a lot of taxpayers dollars defending lawsuits.
Heck yeah, it tells them that they cannot convert or attract new members over their "government-approved" numbers. That's straight-up anti-constitutional.