The U.S. Justice Department announced Wednesday that it had settled a religious discrimination lawsuit with the city of Walnut regarding a Buddhist house of Worship.
The lawsuit was filed by the department after the city denied a zoning permit to operate the Chung Tai Zen Center in 2008. The city had not rejected any other permit applications for houses of worship since at least 1980 and approved a similar permit for a Catholic church in 2008, federal officials said.
"Religious freedom is among our most cherished rights," Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general of the Civil Rights Division, said in a statement. The settlement, he said, "prohibits inferior treatment of any religious organization."
The settlement must be approved by a federal judge.
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