Multimillion budget giveaway to churches an assault on religious freedom
The Freedom From Religion Foundation comes across ever-so often outrageous state-level giveaways to organized religion.
Take for instance, Pennsylvania’s latest budget, before Gov. Tom Wolf to sign. It tramples religious freedom by allocating $7 million to two Baptist churches.
Under the budget provisions, Grace Baptist Church of Germantown is set to get $2 million and Bible Way Baptist Church in West Philadelphia is slated to get $5 million for “acquisition, infrastructure, renovations, rehabilitation, construction and other related costs.”
Yet Article 1, Section 3 of the Pennsylvania Constitution clearly guarantees no one “can of right be compelled to attend, erect or support any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry against his consent.”
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THANKS, NG4! If anyone gets peckish, reading this illegal attempt to subvert the separation of church/State...please send a few dollars to Freedom From Religion Foundation! They're good people who do a surprisingly large amount of legal actions against sneaky schools, churches, city council meetings, etc.
PS---they have interesting conventions, too!
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