Church-State Group Warns CDA Over Kroc Center …

Full text of today’s threatening letter from Americans United for Church and State Separation here.

We have received several inquiries from Coeur d’Alene residents regarding the city’s partnership with the Salvation Army in securing a grant to build the Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center. Specifically, questions have arisen regarding the constitutionality of the city’s plan to remediate and donate – via a land-swap deal with the Coeur d’Alene Parks Foundation – city-owned land on which the Salvation Army will build a community center and chapel. We understand that the city and the Parks Foundation plan to complete this trade in the next few days. We write to inform you that we are deeply concerned that the arrangement as currently structured, likely violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution/Ayesha Khan, legal director, Americans United for Church And State Separation.

DFO: So, DanG, Spencer, et al, can I ask you straight out if you had anything to do with sicking these (expletive deleted) on the city?