Imagine not being able to afford food for your family and going to a soup kitchen, but before you can get a meal for your kids, an employee pulls your family aside to pray. You are faced with the choice to pray or walk away from the food. Even if you share the faith of the religion running the soup kitchen, it’s coercive. But it’s even worse if you follow another faith or are non-religious — the meal becomes an opportunity for the taxpayer-funded provider to proselytize and pressure you to, for example, pray and accept Jesus.
By way of Americans United