Break the Wall Down
Looks like Dubbya is back to pushing his faith-based initiatives program again. He's already gotten it more or less set up via executive order (since it wasn't getting passed in congress) but now he's trying to get congressional approval so it can be made law.

For those who don't know about the program, it basically allows religious groups to receive government funding for running shelters and community programs. The catch is that they are only supposed to get the money if they make their services available to everyone one.

There are number of flaws with the program and I've actually written on them at length when he first announced this program way back in 2001. I wrote 2 articles on my old Geocities site (one of them the day I heard about the program which lead to a lot of angry ranting and the other a few days later which outlined in a more logical way just why the program sucked.) and it also very much strengthened my anti-Bush stance (I was already anti-Bush even when he was running against McCain in the primaries but until this point I only disapproved of him because I thought he was an idiot).

I'll just outline the briefly outline the flaws here as the Geocities page seems to no longer exist.
#1: As these religious shelters and programs are generally run by a church (or order or what have you), it is difficult to ensure the money earmarked for the program actually goes to the program and not to some other need the group may have (rebuilding a chapel may be a worthy cause but it is not one the government should be kicking in on)
#2: While these groups are supposed to help anyone who wants their services, the churches made sure that receiving this money did not restrict any sort of religious bias they may want for their hiring policies. This means that the government is helping to pay for jobs that can be restricted to a particular group (Christian only, Baptist only, etc). While it may be natural for a church-run program to want to hire within the family (so to speak), it is not right for tax-payer money to go towards something that may very well delibrately exclude them.
#3: While these programs may be available to anyone, they generally have an overtly religious message. For example, some Christian-run food kitchens will have a little sermon during or immediately following the meal. This may be comforting for the Christians at the kitchen but it's not likely to provide much solace to a Hindu or an atheist.
#4: The government funding has gone almost exclusively to Christian groups. That reason may be a bit out of date now but I remember reading a couple years ago about a lot of religious non-Christian groups complaining as they were having a lot of trouble (and in most cases were unsuccessful in) receiving funding. I think at the time the protests were coming from mainly Jewish and Hindu groups but as I said it's been a while since I've heard anything on this front. If the money is only really going to Christian groups however the state is not only endorsing religion, they are endorsing a specific religion.

All of these reasons basically boil down to a violation of the whole church-state seperation thing. That's a wall that the religious right (and for the last 4 years, Dubbya) have been working to break down for years. And with high likelihood of Supreme Court retirements in the next 4 years, it's a wall that's likely to come under further fire as well.