NC county says fight over JD Greear’s church expansion isn’t about religious discrimination

An attorney for the Chatham County Board of Commissioners in North Carolina argued Tuesday that an ongoing legal battle over the denial of a request by former Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear's The Summit Church to rezone nearly 100 acres of land to house its Chapel Hill campus isn’t a fight over religious freedom but a fight over separation of powers.

“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction…”