Case on Church Repairs Using Tax Money will not be heard by Supreme Court
By Staff Reporter | Mar 13, 2019 08:03 AM EDT
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court announced Monday that it would not hear a case about whether a New Jersey county could allow churches to participate in grant programs for historic preservation even though the State Constitution forbids using tax money "for building or repairing any church."
From 2012 to 2015, Morris County, N.J., gave more than $4.6 million to 12 churches to fix facades, stained-glass windows and aging roofs under a historic preservation program limited to local government, charitable conservancies and religious institutions.