TITLE

EARMARK Erased

AUTHOR(S)

Leaning, Jeremy

PUB. DATE

December 2007

SOURCE

Church & State;Dec2007, Vol. 60 Issue 11, p8

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article focuses on the impact of the withdrawal of the federal money's earmark by Senator David Vitter on the Americans United (AU) for Separation of Church and State and other groups in the U.S. It is inferred that the money will be used by Vitter for the Louisiana Family Forum (LFF) to promote better science education in Ouachita Parish. The AU and other 35 groups disapproved the LFF's project because they believed that it promotes and teaches creationism in the science classroom.

ACCESSION #

27984915

Tags: EDUCATION & state;  EARMARKING (Public finance);  PUBLIC finance;  CREATIONISM;  VITTER, David, 1961-;  AMERICANS United for Separation of Church & State

 

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