Government officials in Petersburg, Virginia are preventing a special Memorial Day mass from being held in Poplar Grove National Cemetery.

This service has been held annually by the Knights of Columbus since at least the 1960s. It’s a historically significant and commemorative event honoring America’s fallen heroes.

But park officials are denying the Knights a permit to hold the service in the cemetery, citing a new outrageous policy that designates “religious services” as prohibited “demonstrations.”

This blatant and unlawful discrimination not only tramples on our First Amendment rights but undermines religious liberty.

That’s why we filed a federal lawsuit against the National Park Service to reverse course and allow this religious service to be held this weekend.

We are taking this fight for religious freedom to court on Thursday to make sure that the Knights of Columbus can honor the fallen this Memorial Day weekend.

Instead of being canceled, the Knights of Columbus should be granted the opportunity to remember and pray for those who have made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our nation.

Their long-standing tradition that honors the faith of our military service members must be allowed to continue.

But we need your help to win this fight.

With the hearing tomorrow and less than a week until Memorial Day, your support now will give us the resources we need to take the fight for faith to the National Park Service.

Will you stand with the Knights of Columbus and all our fallen heroes this Memorial Day as we defend their right to religious freedom?