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'''Faith-based initiative''' is a term for the government encouraging churches and other religious organizations to participate in government-funded programs<ref>[http://www.hhs.gov/fbci/about/index.html "About Faith-Based Organizations", Dept. of HHS]</ref>.  Based on the conservative opinion that less government is better than more, it is a part of the "lower taxes without coining money" movement first popularized by Ronald Reagan.<ref>Daly, L. 2006. ''God and the welfare state.''  Cambridge MA: The MIT Press.</ref>   

'''Faith-based initiative''' is a term for the government encouraging churches and other religious organizations to participate in government-funded programs<ref name="HHS">[http://www.hhs.gov/fbci/about/index.html "About Faith-Based and Community Initiatives", Dept. of HHS]</ref>.  It is based on the [[conservative]] opinion that less government is better than more.<ref>Daly, L. 2006. ''God and the welfare state.''  Cambridge MA: The MIT Press.</ref>

 

When President [[George W. Bush]] first popularized the term, it referred to ensuring that faith-based organizations could obtain government funding while still being able to talk about religion, despite the alleged [[separation of church and state]]. [[Barack Obama]] has nominally continued the program, giving it the mission "to enable community and faith-based organizations to partner with the government... to achieve the goals.. put forward by President Obama."<ref name="HHS" />  The program is currently administered by the [[United States Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives]].

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