by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Mar 7, 2001 | News
Jerry Falwell said he had “deep concerns” about President George W. Bush’s faith-based initiatives and opposed funding of certain religious groups, including Muslims, according to an exclusive interview with Beliefnet. Bush signed an executive order...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Mar 7, 2001 | News
Southern Baptist leaders have applauded vigorously President George W. Bush’s commitment to giving faith a prominent role in the White House, especially through faith-based initiatives. Some have spoken in glowing terms about Bush’s support for...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Mar 7, 2001 | News
The head of the new White House Office of Faith-based and Community Initiatives will address the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) this afternoon. John DiIulio Jr., appointed by President Bush to direct the office, will join other conservatives discussing...
by Alex Smirnov | Mar 7, 2001 | News
A federal agency’s ongoing investigation of an American evangelical relief organization may prove that what separates church and state is not a wall, but a thin line. Evangelist Franklin Graham’s ministry, Samaritan’s Purse of Boone, N.C., has...
by Cliff Vaughn | Mar 5, 2001 | News
Last Wednesday’s episode of “The West Wing” featured an amusing story line involving the ethics of cartography, or map-making. C.J. Cregg, the White House press secretary, met with a group known as the “Cartographers for Social Equality.”...
by Alex Smirnov | Mar 5, 2001 | News
Public support of the death penalty has remained steady over the last year, according to the latest Gallup poll, conducted Feb. 12 through 21. Sixty-seven percent of Americans favored the death penalty for murder, while 25 percent were against it. These numbers are...