The East Plano Islamic Center is including the head of the state’s funeral regulatory agency in its lawsuit alleging the agency’s investigation into EPIC is unlawful and involves religious discrimination, according to recent court filings.

The mosque lists Kristin Tips, the presiding officer of the Texas Funeral Service Commission, or TFSC, as a defendant in an amended Oct. 3 version of its lawsuit against the commission. It alleges Tips’ text messages sharing anti-Muslim content with the commission’s former executive director show discriminatory conduct during TFSC’s investigation into EPIC’s funeral practices.

“Defendant Tips’s hostility toward EPIC’s faith and her approval of disparaging comments about Islam demonstrate that the Commission’s actions were motivated by religious ani

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