Court Rules Against Atheist Group in Church Funding Battl


	Court Rules Against Atheist Group in Church Funding Battl

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8-18-2007 8:34 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/601bbdb8-2643-4da2-84eb-4b2c0043ff57/0987B583-93D9-4151-96C2-C4105A748544/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070809/28827_Court_Rules_Against_Atheist_Group_in_Church_Funding_Battle.htm" href="http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070809/28827_Court_Rules_Against_Atheist_Group_in_Church_Funding_Battle.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.christianpost.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070809/28827_Court_Rules_Against_Atheist_Group_in_Church_Funding_Battle.htm"><P>A federal court ruled Wednesday against a national atheist group that filed a lawsuit against the city of <A class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="#" target="_blank" itxtdid="3591243">Detroit</A> for pledging to reimburse a church for property improvements.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070809/28827_Court_Rules_Against_Atheist_Group_in_Church_Funding_Battle.htm"><P>“Churches cannot be treated as second class simply because they are religious institutions.  They have the same right to reimbursement for physical improvements as all other entities have,” said Dale Schowengerdt, a counsel for the Christian legal group Alliance Defense Fund, in a statement.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070809/28827_Court_Rules_Against_Atheist_Group_in_Church_Funding_Battle.htm"><P>“No reasonable person would consider a church’s receipt of contractually-promised reimbursement to be a government endorsement of religion.  The court agreed that the church was rightfully allowed to be part of the city’s program,” he argued.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0987B583-93D9-4151-96C2-C4105A748544/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>