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Article: Christian right repackages social agenda. (Christian Coalition declares war on poverty with ts Samaritan Project; leaders of other right wing groups criticize it)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- February 14, 1997
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WASHINGTON -- "Now that we have ended `welfare as we know it,' we can no longer blame the liberals for the carnage that is our inner cities."
Thus spoke Ralph Reed, Christian Coalition executive director, Jan. 30 as he declared a war on poverty in the nation's inner cities by backing legislation that critics say would primarily funnel government money into local churches.
Yet Read immediately found a welcoming response from fellow evangelical and Sojourners community leader Jim Wallis: "I am very grateful that people who are poor and racially divided finally are on the agenda of an organization that calls itself the Christian Coalition," Wallis said. ...