There are members in congress who are members of the National Reformers Movement and are controlled by the Vatican. Under the Bush administration, our country is experiencing a major transformation from a secular to a religious government. The Presidents faith-based initiative is central to this transformation and raises serious questions about church-state separation. Slouching toward theocracy. President Bushs faith-based initiative is doing better than you think, by Bill Berkowitz, 2/6/04 provides an overview of this transformation. In his State of the Union address, Bush renewed a call for Congress to make permanent his faith-based proposals that would allow religious organizations to compete for more government contracts and grants without a strict separation between their religious activities and social service programs. On February 4, 2004, the U.S. House of Representatives voted for provisions in a social services bill that allow religiously based job discrimination in publicly funded programs run by churches.
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