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Fair Housing Group Sues Boise Rescue Mission
Associated Press
May 16, 2008
BOISE, Idaho - Idaho's Intermountain Fair Housing Council is suing the Boise Rescue Mission in federal court, claiming the mission's shelters committed religious discrimination by coercing residents into taking part in Christian-based services.
In the recently filed lawsuit, the housing council contends the Boise Rescue Mission violated the federal Fair Housing Act by discriminating against non-Christian residents at its City Light Home for Women and Children, at its Front Street Men's Mission homeless shelter and at its River of Life Rescue Mission homeless shelter.
The Reverend Bill Roscoe, the executive director of the Boise Rescue Mission, said the allegations are unfounded and that he expects the case to be dismissed.
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