Sean Feucht files lawsuit against Spokane, claims city violated establishment clause

June 10, 2024

Worship leader Sean Feucht has filed a lawsuit against the city of Spokane, Washington, saying the city council violated his religious freedom. According to Religion News, Feucht says four current and former members of the city council sought to punish his public worship for performing in an event last summer.

Following Feucht’s performance last August at his “Let Us Worship” tour, the Spokane city council passed a resolution calling him an “anti-LGBT activist” and condemning the event.

The lawsuit claims that the resolution “was enacted in violation of FEUCHT’s Free Exercise of Religion as established by the First Amendment,” and called the city’s motion “a direct action that condemned and punished the public worship of FEUCHT.”

The Silent Majority Foundation which helped organize Feucht’s lawsuit said that the language of the resolution, “declared the religious views of certain people to be acceptable or unacceptable.”

The organization also argues that Feucht was targeted by the city council in part because he, “does not support the LGBTQ agenda.”

In a statement to Religion News Service, Feucht said, “Liberals have gotten away with using the power of government to bully Christians for too long, and we’re not putting up with it anymore. We’re Americans. This is still a free country. We have the right to gather and worship and pray without being attacked and maligned by our own government, so we are going to fight back.”

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