Imagine, for example, a Jewish family looking for food and shelter in Texas. Bush's policies will put the disadvantaged in an impossible position. They will either submit to religious coercion or go without food, shelter or other needed services to which they are legally entitled. Placing people in need in this kind of position is wrong. Bush's plan opens the door to federal regulation of religion.
Government always regulates what it finances.
This occurs because public officials are obliged to make certain that taxpayer funds are properly spent. Once churches, temples, mosques and synagogues are being financed by the public, some of their freedom will be placed in jeopardy by the almost certain regulation to follow. In an address at the National Press Club on Jan. 30, the Rev. Wanda Henry, a Baptist minister, warned of the inevitable regulations placed on houses of worship once they are incorporated into the federal government's bureaucracy. You are doing just fine without the heavy hand of government on your back. Charitable choice threatens to make religion the servant of the state, rather than its conscience.