Earlier this year I wrote about how the Alaska Christian College was receiving more than USD $1 million despite the small size and religious orientation of the place. Now they are being sued by the Freedom From Religious Foundation.

The Herald Today reports:

"This is just promoting religion," Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the Wisconsin-based foundation, said Tuesday. The group's lawsuit was filed Thursday in Wisconsin. The group hopes to prevent the school from receiving $435,000 - an allotment inserted by Republican Rep. Don Young in a federal spending bill passed last November. He obtained $400,000 for the school the previous year.

It is suspicious that the government would funnel so much money to such a small, unaccredited religious institution. I'd love to know how the decision to fund them was made and what, if any, connections exist between the school and Alaska's congressional delegation. People would be right to suspect some funny business going on behind the scenes.

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