March 21, 2008
Aid to a Baptist U. Is Ruled Unconstitutional in Ky.
A Kentucky judge has ruled that a $10-million state appropriation provided to a Baptist university to build a pharmacy school is unconstitutional.
The appropriation, made in 2006 to the University of the Cumberlands, was challenged in state court after the institution suspended a student who had come out as gay on a social-networking Web site.
In a ruling this month, Judge Roger L. Crittenden of the State Circuit Court in Franklin County wrote that the appropriation "is a direct
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