As a Metro Council member, Southern Baptist Ron Nollner offered invocations at council meetings and sponsored controversial resolutions that, if successful, would have allowed the Ten Commandments to be displayed in government buildings and prohibited Nashville restaurants from pouring liquor before noon.

Thursday, Nollner, of Madison, sued the Nashville-based Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, and related entities for $1.5 million in Davidson County Circuit Court.

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