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| Upchuck (profile) wrote, on 12-3-2002 at 4:10pm | |
| Current mood: Early Music: "Blue on Black" Kenny Wayne Shepherd Subject: Faith-based intiatives |
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| The current administration wishes to broaden the scope of welfare services provided by the federal government by fatih-based organizations. These faith-based organizations are not just the stereotypical Christian Ministries, but also Jewish and Muslim welfare services as well. As with many other issues, the two conflicting arguements come from two different sides of the isle. In general Republicans support the idea. They believe that welfare services are best given by places that rehabitlitate as well as hand out goods. The idea is to remove government bureaucracy from the process so more money actually reaches the people. This is one way conservatives hope to achieve a "smaller government." Almost all liberals dislike the expansion into faith-based services. They quote the sacred "separation of church and state." They claim that by giving funds to faith-based organizations that the government is endorsing a religious standard. Also, by giving money they have no way to account for how it is spent and what it is spent on. A thrid position on this issue arises from the rules that government places on the institutions that it gives money to. A small part of the conservative ideology believes that this could be potential harmful to fatih-based organizations. By subject the organizations to government regulation, it interferes with their messsage, and could prohibit the teaching of the ideals that are supposed to be rehabilitory. |
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