...was effectiveness and use of funds by charities, in which the Salvation Army came out very favorably.

You stated, based on no information other than a preconceived worldview, that they demanded people sit through religious indoctrination to get aid.

When this canard was shot down, you had to reach back and find this local glitch in an organization that gives about $2 billion a year to charity, employs almost five million workers and volunteers, and had already been helping people for a century when "The Great Society" was invented.

I don't know all the details of the case, and it's entirely possible the plaintiffs have a good legal point (despite the judge's ruling). But it's a thin rope on which to hang an entire world-wide organization.