The Jewish Council For Public Affairs joined several U.S. Jewish groups and other organizations to ask President Bush to postpone action on the charitable choice provisions of the administration’s faith-based initiative. The provisions, which allow for government funding to go directly to religious organizations to provide social services, are religiously divisive and it is wrong to raise the issue at a time when Americans are striving for unity, the groups said.
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