Groups Appeal Children’s Home Ruling
Although a federal court dismissed as groundless a suit against Sunrise Children's Services (formerly Kentucky Baptist Homes for Children) that claimed the Kentucky Baptist children's agency uses government funds to promote religion back in March, two liberal civil-liberties groups are appealing the decision to a higher court. Here's the story from the Associated Baptist Press:
CINCINNATI (ABP) -- Two civil-liberties groups are asking a federal appeals court to stop state funding for a Kentucky Baptist agency, saying the agency uses the money to promote its religious beliefs to the detriment of employees and children.
On July 17, Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the American Civil Liberties Union asked the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to take another look at Pedreira v. Kentucky Baptist Homes for Children, Inc.
In the suit, which a lower federal court dismissed in March, a group of Kentucky taxpayers asked that state funding for the agency (which has since changed its name to Sunrise Children's Services) be halted. Like many of the dozens of child-care agencies affiliated with state Baptist conventions, Sunrise has long contracted with Kentucky officials to house and care for children who have been taken into state custody.
Click here to read the full story.
0 Comments posted by: Site Adminitrator on July 24th, 2008