New York Post
By Deirdre Bardolf
September 2, 2023 6:18pm Updated
Sunday is not fun day at this Jersey Shore beach.
New Jersey officials are in a stand-off with a local religious group that controls the resort town of Ocean Grove, which says thou shalt not go to the beach before noon on the Lord’s day.
Government officials say that is clear violation of the separation of church and state, and sent a warning to the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, a Methodist group that operates the beach just south of Asbury Park, earlier this month: