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Article: American Jewish Committee Alarmed at President Bush's Charitable Choice Order
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- December 12, 2002
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NEW YORK, Dec. 12 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The American Jewish Committee
today voiced alarm at an executive order signed by President Bush
that, by executive fiat, enacts key pieces of his "faith-based
initiative," including provisions that allow recipients of federal
funds "to take their faith into account" in their hiring for
government sponsored programs. The faith-based or "charitable
choice" initiative funnels government funds to churches, synagogues
and other pervasively religious institutions that are unable to
separate their spiritual ministry from their provision of social
services.
AJC has consistently opposed charitable choice, in part, because
of the danger that pervasively ...