A non-standard one, but a coupon.
The church didn't get money out of it. Or not much. That begs for an explanation.
CFAs do "spirit nights", fundraisers. My school's stuco has 2-3 per night. The football team, cheer squad, theater company, band, orchestra all have their own spirit nights. The next high school over (whose zoning border is the road the CFA is on) does the same. As does the middle school and a couple of elementary schools, all public. Then there are community groups, churches, etc. I've seen some CFAs where, to avoid having everybody who came in saying they were with the group whose fundraiser was being advertised ("Tell us if you're here for the Quack-a-roony Save the Ducks Fund!"
they'd require ID or proof of some affiliation--show your student ID, for example, or give the name of the play or what street the church was on.
The discount may have been a reduction in the amount of money that the church got as a result of its fundraiser; or possibly you misunderstood. It's equal opportunity. You have a group, sign up for a spirit night fundraiser. There may be some constraints on whose allowed--it is, after all, a private organization and it may have its own rules that don't violate federal regulations that govern our behavior.
What you're describing is also not a separation of church and state, unless you have some evidence that CFA is part of the state governing apparatus--a branch of the EPA or OSHA perhaps, or it reports to the Dept. of Education or the state DMV. Otherwise what you really want is a separation of church from civic and public life. Many do and don't see the different between "state" and "public life". But since public life is composed of the public, and churches are composed of the public, that's really calling for a pandemic of full-blown schizophrenia.
Excuse me, two of my other selves are complaining. One wants the coffee sweeter and the other really wants me to plant the yellow hibiscus because he likes yellow and the red one's already in the ground. "Lambda discrimination"--lambda being the symbol for wavelength--he's screaming.
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