Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Group Calls Foul On Benefit Game

A benefit game featuring the five senior members of the University of Iowa basketball team Wednesday at West High turned controversial after team members opted to donate a portion of the proceeds to a tornado-ravaged Iowa City church. The Freedom From Religion Foundation of Madison, Wis., said donating some of the proceeds to help rebuild St. Patrick's Catholic Church would have been "an unlawful taxpayer subsidy of Roman Catholicism."

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