Religious Leaders Assail Bush Plan to Aid Faith Groups

By LAURA HRUBY and HARVY LIPMAN

A broad alliance of clergy members who oppose the Bush administration's proposal to give more federal money to faith-based groups said last week that the plan would allow such groups to discriminate in their hiring practices and would invite government intrusion into religion.

As the House of Representatives began discussing the administration's faith-based proposal, the Coalition Against Religious Discrimination, an alliance of

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