Quoted in Marvin Olasky, “Beyond the Stingy Welfare State ,” Policy Review54 (1990): 8.
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Robert Wuthnow, Saving America? Faith-Based Services and the Future of Civil Society (Princeton, 2004): 148—49.
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Quoted in Eyal Press, “Lead Us Not into Temptation,” The American Prospect12, Issue 6: 6.
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Jonathan Gruber and Daniel M. Hungerman , “Faith-Based Charity and Crowd Out during the Great Depression,” National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper Series, Working Paper 11332, May 2005.
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Wuthnow, Saving America? , 299, 303.
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This is a theme of recent research on faith-based organizations. See, for example, Wuthnow, Saving America? and Ram A. Canaan, The Invisible Caring Hand ( New York: NYU Press, 2002) who concludes “Congregations cannot assume the role that government plays in social services provision and in caring for needy people. They can, however, be the quiet partner that constitutes part of the first line of help ” (p. 9).
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Deborah Caldwell and Steven Waldman, “Is Bush's Religious Charity Plan Sinking?” Beliefnet (www.beliefnet.com/story/70/story_7038.html ). With no sense of irony, Falwell told the reporters “ the Moslem faith teaches hate . . . I think that when persons are clearly bigoted towards other persons in the human family, they should be disqualified from funds. For that reason, Islam should be out the door before they knock .”
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Amy E. Black, Douglas L. Koopman, and David K. Ryden , Of Little Faith: The Politics of George W. Bush's Faith-Based Initiatives (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2004), 109, 111.
