Emory University received a $1.5 million federal grant from Health and Human Service, announced in October 2002, to support faith-based community health programs across the country. Emory’s Interfaith Health Program …
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The lawsuit sought a court order to HHS to discontinue funding MentorKids, as well as an order to enjoin HHS from “further disbursement of funding to faith-based mentoring groups until …
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In February 2004, the Freedom From Religion Foundation won its challenge of a Ten Commandments monument in a public park in La Crosse, Wis., and the city’s convoluted attempt to …
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The Freedom From Religion Foundation filed a federal lawsuit in April 2003 challenging the funding and merger of two Montana state offices with the “Montana Faith-Health Cooperative.” The Foundation and …
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On June 7, 2004, the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ruled in favor of the Freedom From Religion Foundation and its plaintiffs, challenging 51 years of unlawful …
The Freedom From Religion Foundation took and won the fully adjudicated federal lawsuit challenging direct funding of a faith-based agency in 2002. The Foundation challenged the government funding of Faith …
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Direct subsidy to parochial schools was ruled unconstitutional by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on April 27, 2001. The Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling in …
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A nationally-watched Wisconsin law to create a state coordinator to “assist” clergy to develop “community-wide standards of marriage” was ruled unconstitutional in a firm decision issued on May 25, 2000, …
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The Freedom From Religion Foundation’s two-and-a-half year court battle over a shrine to Jesus in a public park in Wisconsin concluded in November 2000 with the erection of a 4-foot, …
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