Silver Ring Thing Bling 18 May 2005 The ACLU is suing the Department of Health over its financial support for the Silver Ring Thing, a conservative evangelical teen abstinence program which requires graduates to sign a virginity covenant "before God Almighty." Question: Is there any interpretation of church/state separation by which federal money for such a program is appropriate? We're serious. We really want to know. And if there isn't, then why is the press playing this as a third-tier story? If a presidential administration was discovered to be funneling money to business cronies, that'd be a page one story. Why doesn't religious cronyism matter?
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