The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a non-profit legal foundation, has filed lawsuits on behalf of two Christian colleges.
Mr Gao, who lives in exile in Paris, has translated the French surrealist poets, as well as Ionesco and Becket.
In 1170, Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, was murdered by four knights acting on the orders of England's King Henry II.
Yet even if the chancellor sees him as her turbulent Thomas Becket, she is careful not to seem to want rid of him.
Canterbury's other important monuments include the Church of St Martin, the oldest church in England and Christ Church Cathedral, where Archbishop Thomas Becket was murdered in 1170.
The trend towards bigger yachts is due in part to new technological advances in the yachting industry as well as the changing lifestyles of gigayacht owners, says Becket.
"Today's proposed rule does nothing to protect the religious liberty of millions of Americans, " said Kyle Duncan, general counsel, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a law firm representing several of the companies.
In the cases involving business owners, judges have granted temporary injunctions to businesses in nine of 14 cases they've heard, while questions about for-profit employers and religious rights are decided, according to a tally by the Becket Fund.
For those who like to combine their celebrity spotting with their spooking, be on the lookout for the ghosts of Thomas Becket, the young Dukes of York, Sir Walter Raleigh, Lady Jane Grey, a bear and Queen Anne Boleyn.
According to his website, the archbishop began his day at the corner of Cheapside and Ironmonger Lane in the City of London - the birthplace of St Thomas Becket, who was the Archbishop of Canterbury between 1161 and 1170.
The order will allow the mosque to complete the inspection process so it can use its building in time for the religious holiday of Ramadan, which starts at sunset Thursday, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty said in a statement.
"It's more natural for people to say Notre Dame exercises religion, but when you say this power tool company exercises religion, you have to explain it little more, I think the claims are really the same, " said Kyle Duncan, general counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which represents many of the plaintiffs.
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