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Article: Prison fellowship flip-flop: Colson brigade now says they don't want tax money!(EDITORIALS)(Prison Fellowship Ministrie)
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- Church & State
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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Americans United battled tax funding of a fundamentalist Christian program in an Iowa prison for five years, winning rulings from two federal courts declaring public support for the sectarian approach unconstitutional.
The case came to an official end April 9, the final deadline for Prison Fellowship Ministries to appeal to tire Supreme Court. The group chose not to do so, and its reaction to the litigation has been very interesting.
Mark Earley, Prison Fellowship president, told Christianity Today that the ruling against his group is actually useful because it clarifies what type of funding the program, called the Inner-Change Freedom Initiative (IFI), ...