Is the Church of Jesus Christ discriminating against gays and lesbians? The New Jersey Division of Civil Rights is asserting just that.

The civil rights group claims the United Methodist Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association “discriminated” against a self-described lesbian pair by refusing to allow Harriet Bernstein and Luisa Paster to rent its church-owned Boardwalk Pavilion for a civil union ceremony.

“The clash between same-sex unions and religious freedom has arrived, and that clash will increase," says Mathew D. Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel and Dean of Liberty University School of Law. "We’ve seen a pastor arrested in Sweden for preaching that homosexuality is contrary to biblical principles."