Friday, July 18, 2008

Atheist Activist Seeks to Sue Governor

This atheist activist, Rob Sherman, is seeking to stop state funding of the historic Pilgrim Baptist Church...
Rob Sherman is known for his lawsuit that halted a moment of silence in schools. Now he wants to prevent the state from giving Pilgrim Baptist Church a million dollars to rebuild after a fire.

Gov. Rod Blagojevich has said the money is intended for a community center and administrative offices, not religious purposes.

But Sherman says that violates the constitution.

SHERMAN: What goes on in an administration building? That's where the church operates its ministry from. So Rod cannot stick the taxpayers with the cost of a church's ministry expenses.

The church has insisted the money won't fund religious activities.
It's noted in this brief piece from CPR that there has been a lot of controversy over state money for Pilgrim Church. For instance instead of going to the church that money went a school that was housed at Pilgrim instead of the church and this school didn't even manage the money. There was controvery over whether or not there will be a correction or indeed would another check would be cut.

This story is the subject of today's Capitol Fax question of the day.

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