Neither the legislature
nor any county, city, town, township, school district, or other public corporation, shall ever make
any appropriation, or pay from any public fund or moneys whatever, anything in aid of any church
or sectarian or religious society, or for any sectarian or religious purpose, or to help support or
sustain any school, academy, seminary, college, university or other literary or scientific institution,
controlled by any church, sectarian or religious denomination whatsoever; nor shall any grant or
donation of land, money or other personal property ever be made by the state, or any such public
corporation, to any church or for any sectarian or religious purpose; provided, however, that a
health facilities authority, as specifically authorized and empowered by law, may finance or
refinance any private, not for profit, health facilities owned or operated by any church or sectarian
religious society, through loans, leases, or other transactions.
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