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“$100,000 for Louisiana Family Forum, to develop a plan to promote better science education”

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Citizen Contributed Data (38% Complete)

Recipient Web Site:  Recipient Address:  (Flag)
655 St. Ferdinand Street
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
70802
Recipient address as provided by Sponsor(s): (courtesy of Taxpayers for Common Sense)
Baton Rouge,
Short Description of Recipient Organization: 
In 1998, having recognized the need for a family advocate in Louisiana, a group of pastors, policymakers, and concerned citizens came together to launch Louisiana Family Forum. Now in its ninth year, Louisiana Family Forum is proud of its growth, accomplishments, and the role it plays in public policy, family-strengthening initiatives across our state.
Research contributed by:
kerry


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kerry wrote:

Mentioned here: <a href="http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/09/vitter_earmarked_federal_money.html">http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/09/vitter_earmarked_federal_money.html</a>

posted September 23, 2007 at 9:46 p.m.

kerry wrote:

"The earmark appears to be the latest salvo in a decades-long battle over science education in Louisiana, in which some Christian groups have opposed the teaching of evolution and, more recently, have pushed to have it prominently labeled as a theory with other alternatives presented. Educators and others have decried the movement as a backdoor effort to inject religious teachings into the classroom."

posted September 23, 2007 at 9:47 p.m.

Bill_Allison wrote:

Looking at the group's <a href="http://dynamodata.fdncenter.org/990_pdf_archive/721/721416555/721416555_200512_990.pdf">Form 990</a> from 2005 (the most current year available), a couple of things pop out at me:

1. No reference to creation science, but plenty of info about generic family values and abstinence only programs (that seems to be their top issue in terms of expenditures -- $290K out of a budget of $374K); from 2001 to 2005, they never raised more than $400K, meaning that Vitter's earmark would have been a significant chunk of change to the group; they're hooked in with a group called Louisiana Family Forum Action, which, at least in 2005, had people registered to lobby the state government on its behalf (see <a href="http://dynamodata.fdncenter.org/990_pdf_archive/201/201380165/201380165_200512_990O.pdf">here</a>, starting around page 14 of 38...).

posted September 24, 2007 at 4:56 p.m.



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