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ORIGINAL RESEARCHGroup Calls For Senate to Pass Faith-Based Initiative[Editor's note: This press release descibes how a new organization created by Michael Joyce, formerly of the Bradley Foundation, is now attempting to generate political support for president George W. Bush's Faith-Based Initiative. An earlier press release described how Joyce would be creating two new organizations to create support for the initiative. One is headed by Joyce, the other by his second wife, Mary Jo Joyce] [US NEWSWIRE] Americans for Community, Faith-Centered Enterprise (ACFCE) Applauds House Passage of Faith-Based Initiative, Calls for Prompt Action in SenateTo: National Desk Contact: Americans for Community and Faith-Centered Enterprise WASHINGTON, July 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Michael S. Joyce, president of Americans for Community and Faith-Centered Enterprise (ACFE) [editor's note: a 501(c)(4) organization created in June to work for passage of Bush's Faith-Based Initiative] today applauded the passage in the United States House of Representatives of H.R. 7, the Community Solutions Act of 2001, and called on the United States Senate to pass the bill promptly and send it to President Bush for his signature. "Today's vote to pass the Community Solutions Act of 2001 represents an important step forward in President Bush's effort to implement a compassionate and conservative social policy that provides a helping hand to the lost, the last and the least in our society," Joyce said. "We call upon the Senate to enact companion legislation without delay, so faith-based charities across the country can offer new hope and greater opportunities to our fellow citizens who are most in need of assistance." The Community Solutions Act has the strong support of a broad, bipartisan and rapidly growing coalition of faith-based providers and charitable groups. Among the more than 50 national organizations supporting the bill are: the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Faith and the City, Habitat for Humanity International, the National Evangelical Association, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Prison Fellowship Ministries, the Family Research Council, the Islamic Institute, and the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations (see below). The Act provides for $13.3 billion in new charitable tax deductions, expands charitable choice to allow faith-based organizations to compete for federal grants in many new areas of public assistance; prohibits discrimination against service providers and beneficiaries on the basis of religion, and authorizes the creation of Individual Development Accounts. "The eloquent statements from such diverse leaders as His Eminence, Roger Cardinal Mahoney on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Chuck Colson of Prison Fellowship Ministries, and the Honorable Andrew Young and the Honorable James T. Laney of Faith and the City are powerful indicators of the broad base of support the President's faith-based initiative has earned," Joyce said. "In the words of Messrs. Young and Laney, 'Let us work together to empower our many armies of compassion in communities of faith and elsewhere.'" ACFE was formed in June, 2001 to educate policymakers and the public about the faith-based initiative, mobilize support for the initiative among charitable and public policy organizations, and communicate information about the initiative to a diverse and growing coalition of supporters. ACFE's president, Michael S. Joyce, a longtime innovator and activist in social policy, has been termed by the Wall Street Journal's Paul Gigot as "the closest thing to the original source for what Mr. Bush is trying to accomplish." --- List of supporters: -- American Association of Christian Schools -- American Center for Law and Justice -- American Renewal -- American Values -- Association of Christian Schools International -- Call to Renewal -- Catholic Alliance -- Catholic Health Association -- Center for Law and Religious Freedom -- Coalitions for America -- Faith and the City -- The Good Works Coalition -- Habitat for Humanity International -- H.O.P.E. Center, Inc. -- Institute on Religion and Public Life -- Islamic Institute -- Love in Action -- National Adoption Foundation -- National Association of Evangelicals -- The National Baptist Convention, USA, Housing Commission -- National Center for Faith-Based Initiative -- National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise -- National Hispanic Religious Partnership for Community Health -- National Medical Association -- National Restaurant Association -- Neighbors Plus -- New York Hispanic Clergy Organization -- Ohio Baptist State Convention -- Ohio Health -- Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. -- Philadelphia Leadership Foundation -- The Potter's House -- Prison Fellowship Ministries -- Religious Freedom Coalition -- Republican Jewish Coalition -- Reverend Luis Cortes -- Rosa & Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development -- SisterHood Incorporated -- The Sixty Plus Association -- Southern Christian Leadership Conference -- Tennessee Conservative Union -- Traditional Values Coalition -- Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America -- United States Catholic Conference of Bishops -- We Care America -- World Vision KEYWORDS: RELIGION, POLICY -0- /U.S. Newswire 202-347-2770/07/19 18:09 Copyright 2001, U.S. Newswire sign in, or register to email stories or comment on them.
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Two New Groups Founded For Faith Based InitiativeTwo New Groups Founded To Extend President Bush's Vision Of Faith-Based And Community Enterprise MORE ORIGINAL RESEARCHBill Berkowitz PERC receives Templeton Freedom Award for promoting 'enviropreneurs'Right Wing foundation-funded anti-environmental think tank grabbing a wider audience for 'free market environmentalism' On the 15th anniversary of Terry Anderson and Donald Leal's book "Free Market Environmentalism" -- the seminal book on the subject -- Anderson, the Executive Director of the Bozeman, Montana-based Property and Environment Research Center (PERC - formerly known as the Political Economy Research Center) spoke in late-January at an event sponsored by Squaw Valley Institute at the Resort at Squaw Creek in California. While it may have been just another opportunity to speak on "free market environmentalism" and not the kickoff of a "victory tour," nevertheless it comes at a time when PERC's ideas are taking root.
Bill Berkowitz Neil Bush of Saudi ArabiaDuring recent visit, President’s brother describes the country as a 'kind of tribal democracy' In late February, only a few days after Saudi Arabia beheaded four Sri Lankan robbers and then left their headless bodies on public display in the capital of Riyadh, Neil Bush, for the fourth time in the past six years, showed up for the country's Jeddah Economic Forum. The Guardian reported that Human Rights Watch "said the four men had no lawyers during their trial and sentencing, and were denied other basic legal rights." In an interview with Arab News, the Saudi English language paper, Bush described the country as "a kind of tribal democracy."
Bill Berkowitz Newt Gingrich's back door to the White HouseAmerican Enterprise Institute "Scholar" and former House Speaker blames media for poll showing 64 percent of the American people wouldn't vote for him under any circumstances Whatever it is that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has come to represent in American politics, the guy is nothing less than fascinating. One day he's espousing populist rhetoric about the need to cut the costs of college tuition and the next day he's talking World War III. One day he's claiming that the "war on terror" may force the abridgement of fundamental first amendment rights and the next he's advancing a twenty-first century version of his Contract with America. At the same time he's publicly proclaiming how "stupid" it is that the race for the presidency has already started you know that he's trying to figure out how to out finesse Rudy, McCain and Romney for the nomination. And last week, when Fox News' Chris Wallace cited a poll showing that 64 percent of the public would never vote for him, he was quick to blame those results on how unfairly he was treated by the mainstream media back in the day.
Bill Berkowitz American Enterprise Institute takes lead in agitating against IranDespite wrongheaded predictions about the war on Iraq, neocons are on the frontlines advocating military conflict with Iran After doing such a bang up job with their advice and predictions about the outcome of the war on Iraq, would it surprise you to learn that America's neoconservatives are still in business? While at this time we are not yet seeing the same intense neocon invasion of our living rooms -- via cable television's news networks -- that we saw during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, nevertheless, a host of policy analysts at conservative think tanks -- most notably the American Enterprise Institute -- are being heeded on Iran by those who count - folks inside the Bush Administration.
Bill Berkowitz After six years, opposition gaining on George W. Bush's Faith Based InitiativeUnmentioned in the president's State of the Union speech, the program nevertheless continues to recruit religious participants and hand out taxpayer money to religious groups With several domestic policy proposals unceremoniously folded into President Bush's recent State of the Union address, two pretty significant items failed to make the cut. Despite the president's egregiously tardy response to the event itself, it was nevertheless surprising that he didn't even mention Hurricane Katrina: He didn't offer up a progress report, words of hope to the victims, or come up with a proposal for moving the sluggish rebuilding effort forward. There were no "armies of compassion" ready to be unleashed, although it should be said that many in the religious community responded to the disaster much quicker than the Bush Administration. In the State of the Union address, however, there was no "compassionate conservatism" for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Bill Berkowitz Frank Luntz calls Republican leadership in Washington 'One giant whining windbag'On the outs with the GOP, legendary degrader of discourse is moving to California He doesn't make great art; nothing he does elevates the human spirit; he doesn't illuminate, he bamboozles. He has become expert in subterfuge, hidden meanings, word play and manipulation. Frank Luntz has been so good at what he does that those paying close attention gave it its own name: "Luntzspeak."
Bill Berkowitz Spooked by MoveOn.org, conservative movement seeks to emulate liberal powerhouseFueled with Silicon Valley money, TheVanguard.org will have Richard Poe, former editor of David Horowitz's FrontPage magazine as its editorial and creative director As Paul Weyrich, a founding father of the modern conservative movement and still a prominent actor in it, likes to say, he learned a great deal about movement building by closely observing what liberals were up to in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Bill Berkowitz Ward Connerly's anti-affirmative action jihadFounder and Chair of the American Civil Rights Institute scouting five to nine states for new anti-affirmative action initiatives Fresh from his most recent victory -- in Michigan this past November -- Ward Connerly, the Black California-based maven of anti-affirmative action initiatives, appears to be preparing to take his jihad on the road. According to a mid-December report in the San Francisco Chronicle, Connerly said that he was "exploring moves into nine other states."
Bill Berkowitz Tom Tancredo's missionThe Republican congressman from Colorado will try to woo GOP voters with anti-immigration rhetoric and a boatload of Christian right politics These days, probably the most recognizable name in anti-immigration politics is Colorado Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo. Over the past year, Tancredo has gone from a little known congressman to a highly visible anti-immigration spokesperson. "Tancredo has thoroughly enmeshed himself in the anti-immigration movement and with the help of CNN talk show host Lou Dobbs, he has been given a national megaphone," Devin Burghart, the program director of the Building Democracy Initiative at the Center for New Community, a Chicago-based civil rights group, told Media Transparency.
Bill Berkowitz Institute on Religion and Democracy slams 'Leftist' National Council of ChurchesNew report from conservative foundation-funded IRD charges the NCC with being a political surrogate for MoveOn.org, People for the American Way and other liberal organizations If you prefer your religious battles sprinkled with demagoguery, sanctimoniousness, and simplistic attacks, the Institute on Religion and Democracy's (IRD) latest broadside against the National Council of Churches (NCC) certainly fits the bill.
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