President Bush set aside his large scale plans to give federal money to religious charities and will instead support a diluted version of his religion based initiative. Because of the pressures of both the war on terrorism and the national outburst of donations to charities since September 11, the White house was swayed to abandon the most controversial part of the measure to win the passage of a law that would allow the government to fund charities.

The president is planning to move ahead with the full bill later next summer, but the religion based bill could just end up another victim of the reversal of the preside

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