This is why G. W. Bush's plan for Federal aid to "faith-based" charities was such a stupid (or deliberately subversive) idea. It gave the govt. an opening to control one of the last vestiges of free, independent, and virtuous behavior in this country: Christian charities. Couldn't W and his gang see that eventually the Left would use this to destroy religious freedom?
It's almost like having the Tea Party movement become a recipient of Federal aid, or (slightly less dangerous) making it a subsidiary of the Republican Party.