With the help of Advocates for Faith & Freedom, The Pines Church in Bangor, Maine is suing Hermon School Committee (HSC) after it refused to rent school facilities to the church for services, the Christian Post reports.

The church alleges when it applied to lease space, HSC officials asked a series of questions about where the church stood on cultural/religious hot topics such as abortion and same-sex marriage.

When the school board, which rents space to other secular groups, refused to rent space, the church decided to sue.

“Public institutions that seek to lease their facilities for revenue should not be able to discriminate based on religious or political conviction,” said Faith & Freedom VP Mariah Gondeiro in a statement about the case.

“The Hermon School Committee has a history of leasing their properties to secular organizations without persecution. We are advocating for fair and equitable treatment under the law, and The Pines Church was denied that opportunity by the Hermon School Committee,” Gondeiro added.

Some have wondered if Christians should take to the courts to ensure their rights.

When the Apostle Paul and Silas encountered a slave girl with a spirit of divination in Thyatira they delivered her from the Python spirit (Acts 16:16-40).

After she lost her ability to fortune tell, her angry owners dragged Paul and Silas before the city magistrates who had the two beaten and thrown into prison.

However, both Paul and Silas were Roman citizens and this meant they could not be beaten without a trial. Local courts were also not allowed to try their cases, they could only be tried in a Roman court.

When the magistrates told the jailers to release Paul and Silas the next day, the two refused to leave claiming that their rights as Roman citizens had been violated.

“They have beaten us in public without trial, men who are Romans, and have thrown us into prison; and now are they sending us away secretly? No indeed! But let them come themselves and bring us out,” Paul said in verse 37.

Realizing what they had done, the terrified magistrates immediately rushed to the prison and begged the two to leave the city.

So Paul and Silas were not shy about using their rights as Roman citizens to make a point.

READ: Maine school board denies lease to church after asking about its Christian views on hot-button issues