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FBO Watchdogs
13 January 2005A district court ruled that a prison mentoring program in Arizona, MentorKids USA, was illegally using federal funds to promote Christianity to the children of incarcerated parents. The challenge to the program and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) which funded it, came from the Wisconsin-based Freedom from Religion Foundation, which considers the ruling a victory that will help them challenge other publically-funded faith-based organizations that operate without proper government oversight. Annie Laurie Gaylor, a spokeswoman for the foundation, relayed the troubling comments of the DHHS, which said that the government has "'no guidelines in place or desire to monitor these groups,'" and that it was up to watchdog groups like the Freedom from Religion Foundation to monitor the activities of faith-based organizations.
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