But still you run the risk of litigation. It would be interesting. or perhaps maybe easier to understand this if what we were asking for here was unprecedented or had not been already enacted in other parts of the law. But I hold in my hand a report to the Congress for fiscal year 1994 of the Refugee Resettlement Program. which provides four grants directly to religious organizations for dispensing cash benefits. I could read a list of many. many such organizations that are involved in doing it. As a matter of fact. many of those who are in this Senate today voted in favor of this program in 1980 when the Refugee Resettlement Program was enacted and asked that there be no special safeguard against the ability of religious. nongovernmental. notforprofit organizations to assist with refugees. We would not want to end up with the anomalous situation of requiring churches to go over special barriers when providing services to welfare recipients in the United States. while not requiring them to go over the same barriers when helping refugees and others. Similarly. the Adolescent Family Life Act. which was tested in the case of Bowen versus Kendrick. provides funds to public and private counseling agencies that counsel teenagers on matters of premarital sexual relations and pregnancy. The act expressly provided that religious notforprofit organizations were to be considered as eligible.
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