Christianson v. Leavitt

September 12, 2006 Christianson v. Leavitt The lawsuit, Christianson v. Leavitt, was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, in Tacoma, Washington. The plaintiffs, members of Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AU), contend that marriage education programs conducted by the Northwest Marriage Institute (NMI) integrate a fundamentalist Christian view of marriage that cannot be removed from the program content. The lawsuit alleges that the result is that federal grant funds of $97,000 that were awarded to enable NMI to develop fundraising capacity and infrastructure for the program are in essence . . .