45 C.F.R. § B to Part 87
(a) A faith-based organization that participates in this program retains its independence from the Government and may continue to carry out its mission consistent with religious freedom, nondiscrimination, and conscience protections in Federal law, including the Free Speech and Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (42 U.S.C. 2000bb et seq.), the Coats-Snowe Amendment (42 U.S.C. 238n ), Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000e -1(a) and 2000e - 2(e) ), the Americans with Disabilities Act (42 U.S.C. 12113(d)(2) ), section 1553 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (42 U.S.C. 18113 ), the Weldon Amendment (see, e.g., Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020, Public Law 116-94, div. A, sec. 507(d), 133 Stat. 2534, 2607 (Dec. 20, 2019)), or any related or similar Federal laws or regulations. Religious accommodations may also be sought under many of these religious freedom, nondiscrimination, and conscience protection laws.
(b) A faith-based organization may not use direct financial assistance from the Department to engage in any explicitly religious activities (including activities that involve overt religious content such as worship, religious instruction, or proselytization). Such an organization also may not, in providing services funded by the Department, discriminate against a program beneficiary or prospective program beneficiary on the basis of religion, a religious belief, a refusal to hold a religious belief, or a refusal to attend or participate in a religious practice.
45 C.F.R. §B to Part 87