Richard Mourdock on Welfare & Poverty

Churches provide more effective services than the feds

A: Churches have been providing social welfare services for centuries and do a more efficient and effective job than the federal government. My concerns over churches becoming distribution points for federal programs would be that the federal government might acquire leverage over the churches to influence their religious programs.

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