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(D <br />Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />Page 4 <br />October 4, 2007 <br />permitted to be discussed from nonreligious perspectives.r9 These principles would need <br />to be incorporated into any waiver policy should one be developed. <br />We can provide copies of the Child Evangelism Fellowshiu and the Faith Center <br />Church decisions for your information at your request. <br />Best Regards, <br />COLEMAN, GLEDHILL, HARGRA <br />cc: Laura Blackman <br />PEEK, P.C. <br />19 There are those that disagree with this free speech/i=ee expression approach to the use of government <br />property for religious services. In a concurring opinion in Faith Center Church v. Glover, the concurring <br />judge had this to say about analyzing that case under the free speech clause of the First Amendment rather <br />than the Establishment and Free Exeroise Clauses: <br />This should be a simple case [that] asks whether the county can be forced to subsidize a religious <br />organization's prayer meetings by requiring it to provide the religious organization with a free <br />place to worship. <br />The purported inability of the [United States Supreme] Court to adhere to the distinction embodied <br />in the First Amendmen# leads it to conclude that the issues tendered by cases, such as the one at <br />bar, implicate viewpoint discrimination under the free speech provisions of the First Amendment. <br />They simply do not. As the First Amendment notes, religious speech is categorically different than <br />secular speech and is subject to analysis under the Establishment and Free Exercise Clause <br />without regard to the jurisprudence of free speech. <br />Id. 462 F.3d at 1215. <br />