JUN-2: Wisconsin USA: Library religiously intolerant. According to Family News in Focus: ₁₂
Chris Pfeifer was turned down when he asked to rent a public meeting room in the West Allis, WI public library. He wanted to give a workshop on creation science. That library traditionally has refused permission to anyone wishing to use a room for religious discussions.  No Christian group had ever challenged the policy before. 

Focus on the Family writes: "Liberty Counsel attorney Mat Staver, who represented Pfeifer, checked out a stack of creation books from the library shelves and dropped them in front of the top official. The librarian agreed anyone was free to read those books in the library. 'I then asked him, could (I) take those same books and go across the hall to the Constitution Room and tell someone else about the subject matter, and he said "No, because that would involve religious instruction," ' " Staver said. The case went to court. The library lost.

[Webmaster's note: Various courts have consistently ruled that if a government agency, including a library, rents facilities to some community groups, it cannot refuse to rent those facilities to faith groups. It is surprising that the library was not aware of this. It is even more surprising that no local religious group had ever challenged the case. But it was mind-boggling to learn that the case actually went to court. The library had not the slightest chance of winning the case.]

JUN-4: Israel: Parliament bans female prayer: According to AP-Reuters: 
In 2000-MAY, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that women are allowed to recite from the Torah and to wear prayer shawls at the Western Wall. The wall is regarded as the most sacred location on earth by Jews. It was once part of the Second Temple, destroyed in 70 CE. Ultra-orthodox political parties in the Knesset responded to the court ruling. They initiated a bill which would prohibit women from praying out loud or wearing a shawl at the Wall. The penalty for infraction would be a jail sentence of up to seven years. One woman interviewed on television indicated: if a man were to assault her at the wall, he might get a one year jail sentence; a rape might get him five years. But if she wore a prayer shawl, she could be locked up for seven years. The bill was passed, but must go through six additional steps before it is made into law. Later at the wall, four men were detained by the police. They had some eggs that they allegedly planned to throw at the women.

By evening a panchayat was summoned and it was decided to 'punish'' Tikambai for practising 'sorcery.' She was dragged out of her house, stripped, and mercilessly beaten for hours. Even while being paraded through the narrow bylanes of the slums, she was beaten with sticks and stones. Her head was finally slammed on stones."