Prominent Chicago Religious Leaders Ask Federal Appellate Court to Protect Government Neutrality in Religion

U.S. Newswire, April, 2006

CHICAGO, April 5 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Two well-known Chicago religious leaders have asked a federal appellate court in Chicago to uphold the basic constitutional principle of government neutrality between religious groups and secular groups and bar the Pentagon from the extraordinary spending of millions of dollars to support future Boy Scout Jamborees (the only youth organization event so funded by the Pentagon). The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit is hearing arguments in the case of Winkler v. Rumsfeld on Thursday, April 6th. Last year a federal district court judge in Chicago found that the Pentagon's special expenditure of more than $7 million for each Jamboree violated the principle of government neutrality in religion and ordered the funding stopped. The...

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