{"id":5216,"date":"2026-09-19T09:17:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T14:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/19\/minnesota-amish-fight-county-over-building-rules\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T09:17:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T14:17:27","slug":"minnesota-amish-fight-county-over-building-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/19\/minnesota-amish-fight-county-over-building-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Amish Fight County Over Building Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/WtXejZT-ds8\/maxresdefault.webp)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"First Liberty: Minnesota County Has \u2018Essentially Criminalized Being Amish\u2019\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WtXejZT-ds8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> MILACA, MN \u2013 September 19, 2026 (STL.News) A religious-liberty dispute involving two Amish congregations in Minnesota is escalating after attorneys accused Mille Lacs County of enforcing building and permitting requirements in ways that make it difficult for Amish families to construct homes and businesses without violating their religious beliefs. First Liberty Institute, Foley &amp; Lardner LLP, and the Harvard Law School Religious Freedom Clinic are representing the congregations. The legal organizations sent a demand letter to Mille Lacs County seeking religious accommodations and warning that continued enforcement could lead to litigation. First Liberty Senior Counsel Ryan Gardner has<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/minnesota-amish-fight-county-over-building-rules\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MILACA, MN \u2013 September 19, 2026 (STL.News) A religious-liberty dispute involving two Amish congregations in Minnesota is escalating after attorneys accused Mille Lacs County of enforcing building and permitting requirements in ways that make it difficult for Amish families to&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5218,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5216\/revisions\/5218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}