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NEWS / ANALYSIS: Obama to expand Bush’s faith based charities and support their right to hire/fire based on faith (AP)
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ReligiousLiberty.TV
- July 1, 2008
- Alexis de Tocqueville
- Barack Obama
- Cato Institute
- charitable choice act
- evangelical voters
- faith based initiative
- faith-based
- health and welfare studies
- involuntary contribution
- Jennifer Loven
- Michael Tanner
- private charities
- Robert Thompson
- University of Pennsylvania
- voluntary contribution
Jennifer Loven of the Chicago AP bureau reports today that Barack Obama is announcing plans to expand the amount of federal social service funding that will be going to religious organizations that provide services to their local communities. CHICAGO (AP) – Reaching out to evangelical voters, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is announcing plans that […]
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