Christian Coalition
Hits Nerve On Vouchers
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hen the Christian
Coalition speaks, Jew-
ish groups listen —
usually with high
The eight-point program em-
phasizes vouchers for students in
private and parochial schools,
and government funding
anxiety.
for overtly sectarian social-
Last week, the conserva- Stud ents at service agencies that may
tive group unveiled its the Kiryas dispense theology along
agenda for the 105th Con- Joel Public with help for the down-
gress and revealed yet an- Sch ool in trodden.
other plan to repackage New York.
The coalition's proposal
itself as something more
for "hope and opportunity
than a narrowly sectarian group scholarships," a demonstration
trying to spread its own religious program to provide federally
perspective through power poli- funded scholarships to low-in-
tics.
come children that could be used
But even if the veneer is a thin at private or parochial schools, is
one, Jewish leaders worry that simply a ruse to get past consti-
the coalition will be a formidable tutional objections to government
force in a Congress still firmly in aid for religious schools, civil lib-
the hands of conservative Re- erties activists say.
publicans.
One of the arguments of
And the issue the coalition has voucher opponents is the consti-
chosen to emphasize — public tutional notion of what it would
funds for religious institutions — do to the idea of church-state sep-
is one that already divides the aration; even modest voucher
Jewish community, even though programs, they say, would open
a strong majority of Jewish or- the door to more direct federal
ganizations continue to hold firm support for sectarian institutions.
to the principles of church-state
At the same time, opponents
separation.
are alarmed by the idea that at a
In announcing the group's fol- time when public schools are
low-up to its Contract with the crumbling and overcrowded,
American Family, executive di- vouchers would siphon govern-
rector Ralph Reed admitted that ment education money off to pri-
"for too long, our movement has vate schools that often serve the
been ... almost exclusively a middle and upper classes, not the
white, evangelical; Republican poor.
movement with a political center
"They've recast vouchers as a
of gravity centered in the safety way of helping the poor," said El-
of the suburbs."
liot Mincberg, counsel for People
In 1997, he said, the Christian for the American Way, a church-
Coalition will focus on issues of state separationist group. "In fact,
social and economic justice and there is growing evidence that
racial healing.
voucher programs take money
But beneath the compassion- away from poor districts and fun-
ate-sounding rhetoric of the coali- nel it to rich kids in private
tion's "Samaritan Project" are schools."
many of the same plans and pro-
Another point on the Christ-
grams that Jewish leaders say ian Coalition agenda calls for re-
would run roughshod over the moving obstacles to government
concept of church- state separa- funding for religion-based drug
tion and lead to further cuts in treatment centers. The group cor-
government services for needy rectly points out that some of the
populations — particularly for
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inner-city students.