Activist Wants Illinois Governor To Veto Appropriations To Religious Institutions

Social activist Rob Sherman has written a top aide to Illinois Governor Pat Quinn urging him to exercise his line item veto to eliminate all grants in the state's recently passed appropriations bill (HB 313) that are directed to churches, parochial schools and other religious organizations. On his blog, Sherman focuses on a grant for infrastructure at St. Martin de Porres Church, a capital improvements grant to St. Malachy School and a grant for construction of a cabin at the Camp Chi. Sherman says the appropriations violate ban in the Illinois constitution on state-mandatessupport for any place of worship., and the ban on spending state funds on parochial schools