Getting the government to put money into social programs run by religious institutions is a practice that started during the Clinton years, when Bill Clinton advocated the AmeriCorps program.
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From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.
I don't think religious groups should be allowed to apply for federal funds to start new ministries they have not been doing before the funding was available.
Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.
There are some who invoke separation of church and state - to try to get the government out of the business of morality - but this is antithetical to what the founders wanted. The founders wanted to keep theology out of government so that government could focus on the proper business of morality.
Any religious organization should be allowed to hire based on their religious preference- but not with federal dollars.
We must never forget what government is not. Government is not a philanthropic organization. Government is not the family. And government certainly is not the church.
American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.
Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.
In 1992, Bill Clinton ran on a platform of 'ending welfare as we know it.' His political worldview, drawn from like-minded thinkers at the Democratic Leadership Council, was based in private sector growth and personal responsibility.
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