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LA Times / Commentary
December 23, 2002
Karen McCarthy Brown

You Better Believe Federal Faith-Based Funding Is A Bad Idea

Karen McCarthy Brown is director of the Newark Project, a mapping of religious life in Newark, N.J., and professor of anthropology of religion at Drew University Graduate and Theological Schools

Lots of people seem to think that federal funding for faith-based charity violates the separation of church and state. It does.

But there is another reason why Americans should be wary of allowing the government to have any financial control over our richly diverse religious traditions: Such funding allows the government to decide, essentially, what counts as a religion.

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