Word: christian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...George W. Bush directed state agencies to include religious institutions in the operation of their programs. In June, Bush signed legislation clearing the way for religious organizations to provide government-funded drug treatment, day care and faith-based prison ministries. Texas is the only state to allow a private Christian group, Watergate figure Charles ("Chuck") Colson's Prison Fellowship, to operate a voluntary prison-prerelease program. Bush also proposed privatizing the state's welfare system and allowing churches in effect to act as local welfare-service agencies...
...Others fear they will be forced to water down their spiritual message and purge religious concepts like sin and God until their work begins to resemble any other bureaucratic undertaking. "The disease of compromising the message will not be felt immediately," says Phil Strickland, director of the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission, the Southern Baptists' statewide public policy arm. "It will be like a cancer that grows in the body of the church until the health of the church is compromised." At the same time Governor Bush is encouraging Texas churches to participate in government human-services programs, Strickland...
Sitting ringside at the Tyson-Holyfield bout in June apparently gave Christian Slater all the wrong ideas. The toothsome actor turned downright mean at an L.A. party, allegedly punching his girlfriend and biting a man who tried to come to her aid. Facing possible charges of assault, Slater later issued a statement expressing regret about the incident...
...Hodel, the newly-anointed president of the Christian Coalition, makes his first major public address Tuesday, at the National Press Club in Washington. Coalition-watchers will look for clues about life in the post-Ralph Reed era. Our bet: Hodel comes across as reasonable and mainstream, rendering the Coalition more palatable to GOP moderates...
...CHRISTIAN MORTENSEN, 114 PROOF: Danish birth registration. BRUSH WITH HISTORY: Sailed to Ellis Island in 1903 on a ship named the United States. VICE: A nice fat cigar. ODDS: Clearly the Establishment pick, but in this crowd he may be just a young...