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Article: Is charitable choice unconstitutional?(Commentary)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- February 5, 2001
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A spokesman for Americans United for Separation of Church and State told the New York Times last week that a lot of people regard this as one of the biggest violations of church-state separation seen in American history.
By this, the spokesman meant President Bush's proposal to address the nation's social problems through faith-based institutions. More specifically, this refers to charitable choice, a concept Congress has provided for in three separate laws: the Welfare Reform Act of 1996, the Community Services Block Grant Act of 1998 and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Act of 2000.
Mr. Bush proposes to extend charitable choice to the ...