University of Minn. Ends Faith-Health Course After Being Sued

BBS News reported yesterday that the University of Minnesota, after being sued by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, has agreed that it will not offer a planned "faith/health leadership" course. The University had already announced that it was withdrawing from the Minnesota Faith Health Consortium. In its full complaint, FFRF alleged that the University's program which integrated medicine and theology violated the Establishment Clause of the US Constitution and the "no-preference" provision of Minnesota Constitution Art. I, Sec. 16. FFRF argued that tax-supported religious indoctrination is an integral component of the program, and that it includes explicitly religious content designed to be integrated into public health delivery models.