Just before he stepped down as a member of President Obama’s Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Richard Stearns threw down a gauntlet.
It came in the form of a press release chastising those who would say faith-based organizations that hire on the basis of religion should not receive federal funds.
"The President has said he wants his faith-based initiative to be legal and constitutional, and it already is," said Mr. Stearns, president of World Vision, the Seattle-based international Christian humanitarian organization. "The only people trying to change the law and ‘fix’ what ‘isn’t broken’ are those who have always opposed federal funding to faith-based agencies that help the government deliver social services."
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