Judge: Money for
Baptist School Is Wrong

A judge has ruled that lawmakers violated the state constitution by appropriating state funding to a Baptist university.

A gay rights group filed suit to try to block an $11 million appropriation meant to create a pharmacy school at the University of the Cumberlands, a Southern Baptist school in Williamsburg, Ky., that ousted a student in April 2006 for being gay.

Kentucky Fairness Alliance executive director Christina Gilgor calls the ruling a victory against state-subsidized discrimination. A call to the university for comment wasn't returned.

The Center for Law & Religious Freedom had argued on behalf of the school that the legislature acted lawfully because it sought to address the state's shortage of pharmacists. (AP)