August 07, 2008
Obama and "faith-based" programs
Posted by
Mark Kleiman
Michael Drake, aka Q the Enchanter, is back blogging in propria persona, and makes a good point about Obama's "faith-based" initiative: it's not actually "faith-based" at all, because it welcomes non-religious organizations.
If people don't like the idea of giving Chuck Colson his own prison to run, then let the ACLU do the job. It's not hard to improve on a normal prison, and I don't see any reason to give inmates of particular religious dispositions privileged access to civilized conditions. But I'd love to see lots of NGO's, religious and otherwise, operate alternative correctional institutions.
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