By Rebecca Sager
ISBN-10: 0195391764
ISBN-13: 9780195391763
There's frequently greater than meets the attention the place politics, faith and funds are involved. this can be definitely the case with the Faith-Based Initiative. part 104, a small provision of the 1996 Welfare Reform invoice known as "Charitable Choice," was once the start of what we now understand because the Faith-Based Initiative. In its unique shape, the Initiative used to be meant to make sure that small spiritual teams weren't discriminated opposed to within the awarding of presidency investment to supply social providers. whereas this used to be the start of the tale for the initiative, it isn't the tip. as a substitute Charitable selection served because the launching pad for transforming into implementation of Faith-Based tasks. those new guidelines and practices exist although all degrees of presidency already agreement with non secular corporations to supply social companies. however, executive actors were imposing the Initiative in myriad methods, growing new regulations the place none look precious. utilizing info from a number of assets this e-book examines how and why states were growing those rules and practices. the information demonstrate 3 key facets of faith-based coverage implementation via states: appointment of country actors often called Faith-Based Liaisons, passage of laws, and improvement of country Faith-Based coverage meetings. those practices created a procedure during which neither the best hopes of its supporters, nor the best fears of its competitors were discovered. Supporters had was hoping the Faith-Based Initiative will be approximately fixing difficulties of poverty and an over-burdened welfare method, whereas competitors feared rampant proselytizing with govt money. in its place, those tasks most likely didn't supply giant new monetary aid to these in desire. within the position of this desire and worry, and regardless of the nice intentions of many, those projects grew to become strong political symbols within the struggle to reshape church/state relationships and distribution of political strength.
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Recently, however, many people— particularly evangelicals and other conservative Christians—have pushed for a new relationship, based on cooperation and collaboration rather than separation. As Chief Justice William Rehnquist (1985) articulated in a dissenting opinion, “The ‘wall of separation between church and state’ is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. ” This new view of church-state cooperation is inherent in the faith-based initiatives as they are being adopted at both the federal and state levels, where laws and policies that give religious groups an expanded role in government and public life are being created.
Further, some 20 FAITH , POWER , AND POLITICS evangelicals believe that the secularization of the public sphere—for example, by means of court cases that made prayer in school illegal, allowed the teaching of evolution, and made abortion legal—must be stopped. As Randall Terry, a controversial, conservative evangelical movement activist and the head of Operation Rescue (a conservative pro-life organization), said, “Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a Biblical duty and we are called by God to conquer this country.
Nonetheless, states have faced pressures to do more—pressures from within and from the federal government. Letters sent by the White House OFBCI to governors in 2002, 2004, and 2006 encouraged them to create their own OFBCIs; however, these letters did not provide any guidelines on how to establish the offices or on how to fund them. In the end, without specific federal guidelines, states were left to choose whatever action seemed appropriate. As a result, some states made no policy changes, whereas others actively embraced the initiatives.
Faith, Politics, and Power: The Politics of Faith-Based Initiatives by Rebecca Sager
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