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Specifically the language prohibits stimulus funds from being used to modernize, renovate, or repair of facilities:
(i) used for sectarian instruction, religious worship, or a school or department of divinity; or"This is an ACLU stimulus, because any school that gets funds to upgrade a student center or building where Bible studies or religious meetings may be held will be slapped with a lawsuit,” Wesley Denton, spokesman for Sen. Jim DeMint (R.-S.C.), told the Culture and Media Institute. “This bill declares a war on prayer at college campuses in this country. Students have constitutional right to use public facilities regardless of their religious views, and President Obama needs to step in to ask Sen. Reid and Speaker Pelosi to stop this attack on students of faith.”
(ii) in which a substantial portion of the functions of the facilities are subsumed in a religious mission
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