A trial is required to resolve the claim of three Muslims that the chaplain of a county jail, a Christian, had been “deliberately indifferent” to their religious rights while they were prisoners, a federal judge ruled last week.
Southern District Judge Robert P. Patterson Jr. in Gordon v. County of Rockland, 10 Civ. 1549, ruled that the three inmates could sue the Rockland County Jail’s chaplain, Reverend Teresa Darden-Clapp, personally for having distributed two religious tracts that disparaged the Muslim faith.
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