Christian college claims discrimination in state grants
Generic awards given to students attending anywhere but this school
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Posted: May 22, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
A court ruling that a generic state college grant isn't available if you go to a particular Christian college will be appealed to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the school said.
Former U.S. Sen. Bill Armstrong, R-Colo., now president of Colorado Christian University, said the decision from federal district court that the school is "pervasively sectarian" so students do not qualify for state grant programs is just wrong.
"This is blatant religious discrimination," Armstrong told WND, as well as a violation of the 1st and 14th Amendments.
U.S. District Court Judge Marcia Krieger has ruled that the state constitution forbids the use of state funds to support religious schools, declaring the ban imposed on CCU by the Colorado Commission on Higher Education "is narrowly tailored to accomplish the state's compelling interest in complying with the anti-establishment clause of its own constitution."
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