* A Christian college in Colorado that requires students to attend
chapel and staff to affirm that the Bible is "infallible"
should be allowed to receive state scholarship funds, the Tenth U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver has ruled. The decision overturned a
2007 lower-court ruling that found
Colorado Christian
University--located in Lakewood, a suburb of Denver--"pervasively
sectarian" and thus ineligible for public money. The federal court
said that state policies barring some religious colleges from receiving
state funds violates the state constitution because Colorado allows
students at Catholic and Methodist colleges to receive public
scholarships. "The First Amendment does not permit government
officials to sit as judges of the indoctrination quotient of theology
classes," wrote Judge Michael McConnell.