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« on: October 11, 2006, 11:11:32 PM »
Extracted from a New York Times article describing how faith based groups evade laws that apply to private businesses:

In 1997, George Bush, who was the governor, pushed through legislation that exempted faith-based day care centers and addiction treatment programs from state licensing, allowing them to be monitored instead by private associations controlled by pastors, program directors and other private citizens. Other laws enacted on his watch steered more state financing to these ?alternatively accredited? institutions.

Fewer than a dozen child care centers and about 130 addiction treatment programs took advantage of this new alternative, according to subsequent studies. But several of these later became the focus of state investigations into complaints of physical abuse. A study by the Texas Freedom Network Education Fund, a nonprofit research organization that opposed the faith-based initiatives, found that ?the rate of confirmed cases of abuse and neglect at alternatively accredited facilities in Texas is more than 10 times that of state-licensed facilities.?

In spring 2001, the Texas Legislature quietly allowed the alternative accreditation program for day care centers to lapse.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/busin ... &th&emc=th
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