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Hazy Faith-Based Future

Charitable-choice funding will face challenges under the new administration.

Sarah Pulliam | posted 3/11/2008 08:38AM

The major presidential candidates have each voiced support for federal funding of faith-based social services. So far, however, none has unveiled a specific plan for the White House's Office of Faith-Based ...

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RJR_fan

Posted: March 12, 2008 8:22 AM


Thou shalt not steal -- not even by majority vote. Attempting to do God's work with stolen money is like buying an offering with the wages of a harlot, or sodomite.

JohnH

Posted: March 12, 2008 8:13 AM

Faith based social initiatives can be corrupting to all. They tempt groups into getting monies for projects which are not necessary ideal for their profile/objectives, open the way for misuse of monies in ways where public monies are less visible and accountable, and can be an abdication of the role of the governments role of proper administration of public monies and achieving public good. Get failures – no political accountability – their fault, successes – the politicians want all of the glory. Not ideal to use amateurs where good process and governance is needed.

Anna	Posted: March 11, 2008 11:05 PM

These faith-based grants being turned down by churches has nothing to do with evangelism or fundamentalism. The problem is the money is given to you as a deal to start up something and pulled with the expectation that the churches are to continue what was started up. Most churches are not like the government. They live on budgets and have to stay within the budgets. They can't continually raise taxes to keep the "projects" going year after year. The government found out how expensive it was to support people who did nothing to make their life better and tried to get the churches to take over most of the work and the expense. The turth is that Churches through the generations helped people by having a member give someone a job, members giving food, on an individual basis and than the people pulled themselves up and returned the favor to someone else in the future, all for free for the churches. It takes less money to do it this way but it works. The gov gift is not from the heart.

Greg M

Posted: March 11, 2008 8:26 PM


Does your faith-based organization take money from a government that tortures people and prosecutes a war of occupattion? Do you take it in the name of the Prince of Peace? Shame!

Robert S.

Posted: March 11, 2008 5:08 PM

A very real problem with these 'faith' based initiatives is 'whose faith based on what'? The author of this piece says that Pres. Bush is an outspoken evangelical. That's an understatement! His faith is evangelical based on what? I don't care who was involved with him, or what he says he does (pray everyday), that fact is are we going to evaluate faith based on the Bible canonized and accepted by Protestant Xty, or the Bible of the Cath. Church, or the Koran, or the Morman additions or whatever. That is why faith means very little because it is not defined well. In the case of President Bush, by his fruits we shall know him. He claims an "evangleical faith' but I don't see a very deep commitment to truth, honesty, humility, responsibility and any number of other reflections of his kind of faith, as I test them from the Holy Scriptures that I use. Do I want a social service agency connected to a Muslim Mosque, using federal funds to establish a Madras along with the services? No

Joe K

Posted: March 11, 2008 1:12 PM

My organization received a faith based grant in 2006. It was not renewed in 2007. We did not meet the goals as set by the grant. The grant was not a good fit for our organization but the previous director wanted to get in on the money. The grantor explained to us that we would not receive it again based upon our performance. However, in the discussion that followed, she admitted that NO ONE was getting renewed in the NW! All we could figure was that 2007 was not an election year. If at all possible for reasons outlined in the article, stay away from Federal grants.

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