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                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, July 31, 1990                   TAG: 9007310466
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: RICHMOND                                LENGTH: Short

LIBERTY CASE TAKEN TO VA. SUPREME COURT

The Virginia Supreme Court was asked Monday to hear an appeal of the decision that the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Liberty University is entitled to raise money through a $60 million tax-free bond issue.

With funding from Silver Spring, Md.-based Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Lynchburg taxpayers Nick Habel and Haynie Kabler sued the Lynchburg Industrial Development Authority over the bonds.

Circuit Judge Mosby Perrow ruled in March that the authority may issue the bonds.

Habel, a retired Baptist minister, said the school should not get the bonds because it discriminates against those who do not follow its fundamentalist tenets.

- Associated Press 


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