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Article: A Matter of Opinion: Faith and Accountability; Sorting out the red herrings in 'charitable choice' debate
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- March 8, 2001
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Tobin, Jonathan S.
Jewish Exponent
03-08-2001
A Matter of Opinion: Faith and Accountability; Sorting out the red herrings
in `charitable choice' debate
If anyone was actually paying attention to some of the issues discussed in
last year's presidential campaign, one point of agreement between
Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore was that both thought there
was merit to the concept of "charitable choice."
The idea both candidates seemed to support is that faith-based agencies
supplying social services to the public should be given the chance to get
federal aid money that heretofore went only to secular groups.
Faith-based organizations are often generally considered to be most
successful in ...