“Legal Questions Remain as Obama Revamps Faith-Based Efforts”
Read a Feb. 6, 2009, Religion News Service story (posted at Crosswalk), about the complications in the adoption of Obama’s faith-based program.
Tag: religious freedom
“Obama Expands Faith-Based Office”
Read a Feb. 6, 2009, news story at Christianity Today about the Obama plan. The piece quotes Doug Koopman, co-author of a book on Bush’s faith-based office, among others.
“Obama Signals Higher Church-State Barrier for Faith-Based Office”
Read a Feb. 5, 2009, analysis of the Obama’s faith-based initiative program by Dan Gilgoff of U.S. News & World Report. Gilgoff includes reactions from left and right on the religious spectrum.
“Public Favors Bush’s Faith-Based Charities Initiative”
A July 2001 Gallup Poll analysis discussed several polls on the topic and showed the variance in public approval, which appeared to shift depending on whether respondents associated the initiative with Bush, and what charities they believed would benefit.
“Faith-Based Programs Still Popular, Less Visible”
A November 2009 survey from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life shows Americans broadly support faith-based programs, and Democrats more so than Republicans, for the first time. Yet a strong majority also has concerns about possible church-state violations.
Steven H. Shiffrin
The Charles Frank Reavis Sr. Professor of Law at Cornell Law School in Ithaca, N.Y. Shiffrin has written that liberals need to give faith-based groups more leeway to receive federal funds.
Stephen Goldsmith
Stephen Goldsmith is Daniel Paul Professor of Government and director of the Innovations in American Government program at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He was a special adviser to President George W. Bush on faith-based initiatives. A former mayor of Indianapolis, Goldsmith is the author of Putting Faith in Neighborhoods: Making Cities Work Through Grassroots Citizenship.
Stanley Carlson-Thies
Stanley Carlson-Thies is founder and senior director of the Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance, which has called for a “Fairness for All” approach to religious freedom and LGBTQ rights. He previously worked on faith-based initiatives for the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations.
“Faith-Based Anniversary: Has Anything Changed?”
Read a Feb. 5, 2010, post at ReligionDispatches.org, which rounds up the criticisms of church-state groups such as the Coalition Against Religious Discrimination.