Source: WAVY.com
http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=61,7193,0,0,1,0
They teach morality, tolerance and love. But a small group of Buddhist monks say that is not what they have found in the city's leaders.
The monks have filed a federal lawsuit claiming Virginia Beach is violating their Constitutional right to religious freedom.
"I come from Vietnam," said Chuc Than, one of the monks. Some of the monks left communist Vietnam and settled on a four acre piece of property in the sprawling farmlands of Pungo.
They refurbished the dilapidated farm and last year the city gave them permission to hold small religious services on Sunday Mornings. The monks say usually only about 20 people attend those services and they are very quiet.
Last month City Council ordered them to halt those Sunday Services.