This church they're renting for graduation ceremonies is the only place large enough to hold that many people inside. From my understanding, they don't want to hold the ceremonies in the high school football stadiums because if it rains, they don't have a large enough alternative site inside.
The church is charging them only $2,000 to use their facilities, whereas it would cost them $40,000 to use a commercial facility outside the county. I see the justification as saving $38,000 of school district money and keeping the graduation ceremonies in the county.
I know somewhere in the US, some liberal read this article or saw it on the news (since it did become a national story) and is probably asking a conservative, "How would you feel if they were holding these ceremonies in a mosque?" They wouldn't be holding them in a mosque because the Islamic religion prohibits anyone who is not Muslim from entering a mosque. Now I'm sure if the liberal was told this, his/her response would be, "But what if they did allow non-Muslims in the mosque?" Then that would be a straw man's argument, but they would think it a "logical" response.
This group who is suing to prevent the graduation ceremonies from taking place in this church must believe the majority of people must conform to desires of the few. That's not how our Founding Fathers intended things. The candidates with the majority of the votes win; not the one with the fewest. Bills are passed or defeated by a majority. Proposals on ballots are passed by a majority.
This will be interesting to follow in the news.