The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) has sent a letter to a senior care center in Missouri, warning them of legal action if it does not allow Abigail Southerland to continue holding Bible studies, the Christian Post reports.

In 2022, Abigail approached the center about holding a Bible study in one of the center’s common areas, which can be reserved by residents.

The center agreed and for several months, residents regularly gathered ‘without issue’ to hold their Bible study.

However, according to ACLJ the situation changed in June 2023, when the center told Abigail that she could no longer hold the Bible study “because some residents were purportedly offended by the Bible study.”

The wording was a bit unusual.

Apparently ‘some residents’, often a code word for only one person, were offended by the thought of someone holding a Bible study at the center, since they were not required to attend. If they didn’t like it, they didn’t have to go or even be near it.

But apparently, that wasn’t enough.

To further justify its decision, the center added that since it was federally funded, the FHA (Federal Housing Administration) does not allow Bible studies.

In its letter to the center, ACLJ explained that not only does the FHA allow Bible studies, it actually expressly forbids discriminating against people because of their religious views.

It warned that if the banning was not quickly reversed, a lawsuit would follow.

This is similar to a case in 2020, when a couple in Virginia, Kenneth and Liv Hauge, were threatened with eviction from their senior care center if they did not discontinue their Bible study. They sued the center, won, and were allowed to continue their study.

This attempt to shut down Christian expression also has some similarities to a situation involving a former senior writer for Global Golf Post, Steve Eubanks, reported by The Blaze.

Eubanks had interviewed Christian female pro golfer Amy Olson, who was seven months pregnant when she competed recently at the 2023 U.S. Women’s Open held at Pebble Beach.

Eubanks resigned after alleging that management insisted they would only run the interview if he removed all the references that Olson had made about her Christian faith and pro-life beliefs.

Ironically, during the interview, Eubanks had asked Oson if it was difficult being a Christian in today’s culture:

Olson: It’s very tough. Being a Christian has always been political because Christianity is supposed to touch every aspect of your life. I believe in comprehensive Christianity. It dictates how you treat people, how you think about the world, and the decisions that you make. There’s nothing in my life that isn’t affected by faith. To think that there is a realm out there not affected by my faith is something I can’t even fathom.

But over the last decade it’s become extremely difficult because a lot of the things that Christianity stands for have become political battlegrounds. Christ hasn’t changed His view on any of those things, but the culture has changed. So it’s a lot less acceptable to be an open Christian and to believe what Christianity has stood for the last 2,000 years.

READ: Missouri senior center cancels weekly Bible study after ‘some residents were offended’ AND Exclusive: Golf writer says staff ‘went ballistic’ over story on pregnant golfer’s pro-life, Christian views — and outlet’s higher-ups refused to run it