Wojtek was, however, speaking of which kind of congregation is most likely to apply for government funding for religious charities:
Mark Chaves writes:
<blockquote> First, very large congregations express willingness to take advantage of charitable choice opportunities. Second, informants from 64 percent of predominantly African-American congregations expressed willingness to apply for government funds, compared with only 28 percent from predominantly white congregations. Controlling for other characteristics, predominantly black congregations are five times more likely than other congregations to seek public support for social service activities.
Third, Catholic and theologically liberal or moderate Protestant congregations are significantly more likely to apply for government funds in support of social service activities than are theologically conservative congregations. Forty-one percent of congregations in liberal or moderate Protestant denominations said they are willing to apply for government funds, compared with 40 percent of Catholic congregations and only 28 percent of congregations in conservative denominations. Furthermore, congregations described by their leaders as theologically and politically conservative are significantly less likely to express willingness to apply for government funds even after controlling for denominational affiliation and other characteristics. ("Congregations' Social Service Activities," December 1, 1999, <http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?ID=309275>)</blockquote>
While religious conservatives advocated for government funding for religious charities, conservative religious congregations, in practice, have applied for it much less often than liberal ones have. That is probably because conservative religious congregations dislike government regulations that come with funding.
As for abstinence-only sex programs, blame Bill Clinton's Welfare Reform for them: "The federal appropriation -- which balloons to $437.5 million when combined with matching state funds -- is the result of a little-publicized and never-debated provision of Public Law 104-193, the welfare reform law signed into law by President Clinton in August 1996" (Priscilla Pardini, "Federal Law Mandates 'Abstinence-Only' Sex Ed," <http://www.rethinkingschools.org/sex/sexmain.shtml>). -- Yoshie
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