Would you have a problem with this if the only organizations being given federal money were non-religious charities?
If you answered no, then I'm not sure I understand why the government should refrain from paying for churches to conduct non-religious work. We're talking about salvation in a corporeal sense here.
If you answered yes, why do you think the federal government should refrain from giving money to charities, especially when those charities are reducing a cost that would otherwise be absorbed by the government?
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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