My letter to the SF Chronicle Editor:

Despite your egregious and faulty headline "Bush abandons move to exempt religious groups," in actuality the Bush administration is doing nothing of the sort. You even mentioned this reality in the article, however burying it near the end of the article. You weren't the only newspaper in the country to have such a faulty headline though; apparently the slick spin doctors at the White House fooled many.

The Bush Administration simply stated that they would not seek this further via the regulatory scheme they had concocted with the Salvation Army. They are still pursuing the concept of discrimination through federal funding via their legislative efforts in Congress, their view of existing law, and their continued promotion of the so-called "faith-based" concept. Please, in the future, don't mislead the public by employing headlines which actually hide the truth.