Someone needs to tell this to those two morons sorry Mormon religious gestapo at the Los Angeles temple who attacked a disabled black veteran, tried to take his service dog by force and then threw him bodily off the grounds with the words "We don't support service animals" earlier this month.
No shit
@altschmerz A disabled black veteran suffering PTSD entered the public grounds of the Los Angeles LDS temple, which as a public place has tax exemption form state and federal taxes, but was turned away for having a service animal with him with the words "we do not support that". He returned later with the dog's certification and a camera phone, was pursued by Temple security, told to leave and claimed rightly that in a public place he was allowed to have a service animal with him.
They claimed that though it is a public place, the grounds are church property and so are exempt from the laws regarding service animals, they then tried to physically take the dog from him, when he called the police they bodily ejected him from the grounds, throwing him on to his face on the pavement outside, injuring his leg and his dog, he is now pressing charges for assault and animal cruelty.
Only a day or so later a veteran in Virginia was escorted from the premises by security at Greenbrier Mall for having a service dog.
In both cases the Americans with Disabilities Act, states clearly that neither veteran was breaking any law or bi-law and though churches are permitted an exception to the ADA for the interior of the church buildings, a the temple is not a public place of worship and by designating the grounds church grounds to avoid paying ground tax the exemption is null and void.