Civil liberties groups say federal money is being used to proselytize inmates, many of whom do not have secular alternatives for rehabilitation.

Aides said the government agencies providing the funds would work to ensure that there was a secular alternative to any services sponsored by a religious group.

For example, choral societies offered a secular alternative to church music.

It describes itself as a "secular alternative to church."

He discusses neither secular nor religious alternatives to the faith of his birth.

By this time he had lost his Christian faith but was not attracted to any of the secular alternatives on offer.

An invocation can also be a secular alternative to a prayer.

It was envisaged as a secular alternative to the Oxbridge universities, one which would take no account of a student's race, class or religion.

And he said he would insure there were "secular alternatives" to faith-based programs.

If an individual objects to the religious character of a program, a secular alternative must be provided.