Public Funds for Church Security: Which States Are Stepping Up?
As churches weigh new security needs, parishes look to federal and state grant programs for protection — but fear the conditions that come with taxpayer funds.
As churches weigh new security needs, parishes look to federal and state grant programs for protection — but fear the conditions that come with taxpayer funds.
According to Fernandez, the Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP) FEMA grant given to Catholic Charities of San Antonio “clearly stated that you could provide transportation.”
The court, Bursch said, needs to “make clear that any administration, including future ones, can enforce a rule like this one if it so chooses, and that the courts can’t interfere with that.”
The Hyde Amendment, a policy barring taxpayer funding of elective abortions, has been law since 1976. I
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