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Lawsuit Settlement Pulls HHS Funding for Silver Ring Thing Abstinence Program

From The Roundtable on Religion and Social Welfare Policy:

In a closely watched case, a federal agency has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed against it by suspending funding for a sexual abstinence program accused of using taxpayer dollars to present religious messages.

Under the agreement, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agreed to withhold the $75,000 grant it made to Silver Ring Thing, which runs faith-based sexual abstinence education programs for teenagers throughout the country. The case had been brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which alleged that the group violated the First Amendment because the federally-funded program's abstinence message was not adequately separated from religious components.