Dallas Housing Authority halts church services at complex for seniors

Thursday, March 4, 2010
By SAM HODGES and KIM HORNER
The Dallas Morning News

For 14 years, Lake Highlands United Methodist Church has brought Sunday morning worship to elderly residents of Audelia Manor, a public housing apartment complex in northeast Dallas.

But now the Dallas Housing Authority has ordered the church to stop, arguing that the services violate church-state separation required by the U.S. Constitution.

Residents aren't exactly saying amen. the rest