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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 CHRISTIAN page 132 inner-city students.