Rescuing mission caught up in controversy
The Mission San Miguel Arcangel in San Miguel, Calif., is literally crumbling, but attempts to get state money to fix it has fallen afoul of the “separation of church and state” debate.
The Mission San Miguel Arcangel in San Miguel, Calif., is literally crumbling, but attempts to get state money to fix it has fallen afoul of the “separation of church and state” debate. The San Simeon earthquake of 2003 made the 6-foot walls of the 200-year-old mission church dangerously unstable and led to closing the church. One state senator says that, while it is a place of worship, the church is also a piece of the state’s history that should be saved with public money. Opponents say that would be subsidizing one church congregation in violation of the constitution. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-mission11may11,1,6417996.story?coll=la-headlines-california
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