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SMITH v. COUNTY OF ALBEMARLE, VA.

No. 88-2973.

895 F.2d 953 (1990)

William S. SMITH; Paula Kettlewell; Wayne B. Aranson; James J. Baker; Daniel S. Alexander; Douglas W. Kanney; James W. Pence; B. Eliot Singer; Jean M. Quigley; Cynthia K. Davis, Plaintiffs-Appellees, and James F. McDonald, Plaintiff, v. COUNTY OF ALBEMARLE, VIRGINIA, Defendant-Appellant, Northside Baptist Church; Living Hope Chapel; Maranatha Christian Fellowship; Providence Foundation; Reverend William Templeton; Reverend Richard A. Whittaker; Reverend Greg R. Davis; Reverend Russell Stroup; Lois G. Stroup; Reverend Lewis D. Templeman; Reverend Ralph S. Carter; Reverend Mark A. Beliles; Stephen K. McDowell; Norman T. Brinkman; Georgia C. Brinkman; Bill Kincaid; Anne Kincaid; Ronald J. Gilbert; Ann S. Gilbert; Thomas W. Gilliam; Diane Gilliam; Michael A. Coffey; Debra B. Coffey; Richard H. Rubenoff; Lynn Rubenoff; Sheila Richardson; Reverend John Manzano; Reverend Curtis L. Gibson; Eileen D. Gibson; Susie S.K. Waldron; Elizabeth Parrott; Mark L. Marhoefer, Amici Curiae, and Timothy Lindstrom; Joseph Henley; Edward H. Bain, Jr.; Patricia Cooke; Richard Bowie; Peter Way, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided February 8, 1990.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied March 28, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George R. St. John (St. John, Bowling & Lawrence, Charlottesville, Va., on brief), for defendant-appellant.

James Jeffrey Knicely (Graber, Knicely & Cotorceanu, Charlottesville, Va., Roy W. Ferguson, Jr., Wharton, Aldhizer & Weaver, Harrisonburg, Va., John W. Whitehead, The Rutherford Institute, Charlottesville, Va., on brief), for amici curiae.

Dexter Brock Green, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before MURNAGHAN and SPROUSE, Circuit Judges, and BLATT, Chief District Judge for the District of South Carolina, sitting by designation.

Rehearing and Rehearing In Banc Denied March 28, 1990.

MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge:

Here we approach one of the most entangled areas with which courts must be concerned under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. That document provides in pertinent part:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech....

U.S. Const.Amend. I. The...

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