The Chronicle of Philanthropy

U.S. Agency Pulls Grant From Abstinence Group

By Brennen Jensen

The Silver Ring Thing, a nonprofit organization in Sewickley, Pa., that stages youth-oriented events nationwide to promote sexual abstinence, has had its federal funds suspended in response to charges that it used government money for religious activities.

In a letter to the charity, Harry Wilson, an associate commissioner for the U.S. Department...

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