Faith-Based Initiative
The Bush Administration Proposal
In January 2001, the Bush Administration issued a blue-print of its proposed "faith-based initiative." The following foreword and introduction to that document provide the Administration’s rationale for the initiative. Foreword by President BushAmerica is rich materially, but there remains too much poverty and despair amidst abundance. Government can rally a military, but it cannot put hope in our hearts or a sense of purpose in our lives.Government has a solemn responsibility to help meet the needs of poor Americans and distressed neighborhoods, but it does not have a monopoly on compassion. America is richly blessed by the diversity and vigor…
