Reading Room Document
Constitutionality of Awarding Historic Preservation Grants to Religious Properties
A court applying current precedent is most likely to conclude that the direct award of historic preservation grants to churches and other pervasively sectarian institutions violates the Establishment Clause of the Constitution. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/20176/download.
The OLC's Opinions
Opinions published by the OLC, including those released in response to our FOIA lawsuit