The long-running controversy over Sunday morning beach access from the boardwalk in Ocean Grove in Monmouth County has hit another delay.

Monday was supposed to be the deadline for state Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Shawn M. LaTourette to decide the next step in the fight over Ocean Grove’s religion-based tradition of blocking beach access on Sunday mornings.

Ocean Grove — a section of Neptune founded as a Methodist religious retreat — has chained off access to the beach from its privately-owned boardwalk on Sunday mornings from 9 a.m. until noon every summer.

LaTourette was scheduled to either affirm, reject or modify an administrative judge’s ruling in June in favor of allowing the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association to continue blocking beach access on Sun

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