The middle level of agency review is due weight deference. The deference allowed an administrative agency under due weight is not so much based upon its knowledge or skill as it is on the fact that the legislature has charged the agency with the enforcement of the statute in question. This is the situation here. We therefore accord the commission's interpretation in this case due weight deference. We will not overturn a reasonable decision if it furthers the purpose of the statute, unless we determine that there is a more reasonable interpretation under the facts.
Soldiers contends it is exempt as a church under subd.
Soldiers correctly observes that a church is not confined to the existence of a physical house of worship. See id . at 788. Neither Peniel nor its employees are directly operated, controlled or employed by any branch of the Lutheran Church, of which Sortedahl is a pastor, or of any other church of any other denomination. Soldiers argues that it is a church within the broader Christian sense, but just because it provides a Christian environment and calls itself a church in its articles of incorporation does not make it a church. We note that Soldiers has cited no case in which a school was defined as a church without being directly operated and controlled by a recognized church, as were the schools in St. Martin .