Colorado is not required by either the state or federal constitutions to provide public funding for tuition at pervasively sectarian colleges, says Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
In a friend-of-the-court brief filed in the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Americans United joined with other civil liberties groups to argue that restrictions on state aid to religious institutions are constitutional.
Colorado Christian University has filed a lawsuit, demanding the right to participate in Colorado's state-funded student financial aid program. The litigation came after state officials decided the university was so overwhelmingly religious that aid to students there would fund religion and thus violate the separation of church and state.
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