Heritage Village Church & Missionary Fellowship, Inc. v. State

EXUM, Justice.

This case involves a variety of challenges based on state and federal constitutional grounds to G.S. 108-75.1 et seq., the “Solicitation of Charitable Funds Act” (Act). We hold that Section 75.7(a)(1) of the Act, which exempts from compliance all religious organizations except those whose “financial support is derived *401primarily from contributions solicited from persons other than its own members” deprives the Act of that neutrality toward religion required by the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, and Article I, §§ 13 and 19, of the North Carolina Constitution. We also…