President Bush called on Congress to pass legislation that would allow faith-based institutions that receive federal funds to use religion as a factor in hiring. “Faith-based organizations also need a guarantee they will not be forced to give up their right to hire people of their own faith as the price of competing for federal money,” Bush said in a speech Tuesday to the White House Faith-Based and Community Initiatives Leadership Conference.
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