Thursday, February 05, 2009

Obama Modifies Bush’s Faith-Based Office

Wow, remember when members of the Left went into hysterics when Bush proposed his faith-based office?

President Barack Obama said Thursday he will establish a White House office of faith-based initiatives that will show no favoritism to any religious group and adhere to the strict separation of church and state.

Addressing the National Prayer Breakfast, Obama spoke of how faith has often been a divisive tool, responsible for war and prejudice. But, he said, “there is no religion whose central tenet is hate. There is no God who condones taking the life of an innocent human being,” and all religions teach people to love and care for one another. That is the common ground underlying his faith-based office, he said.

This is a good thing, but I expect the Freedom From Religion Foundation to sue Obama any day now.

(5) Comments
Posted by Owen at 1225 hrs
Politics + Politics - General

  1. “This is a good thing, but I expect the Freedom From Religion Foundation to sue Obama any day now.”

    Not holding my breath on that one…

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 05, 2009 at 1237 hrs


  2. Well, I heard that they were going to make it so that any organization that took government grant money to do their work would have to refrain from discriminatory hiring practices.  (i.e., you can’t not hire someone because he/she is gay, for example.)  To me, that’s a huge step in the right direction.  I don’t care who uses government grant money for charitable work—so long as they are willing to refrain from proselytizing with the money or engaging in discrimination.

    Posted by scott on February 05, 2009 at 1241 hrs


  3. This is a good, but also a great example of the media standards, and subsequent bias applied to republicans vs. democrats.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 05, 2009 at 1330 hrs


  4. Addendum: If I were to discover that the above two stipulations were not true, I would be totally against Obama’s faith-based initiative plan.  At least that should help you understand that this liberal at least is being consistent and has no double standard on the matter.

    Posted by scott on February 05, 2009 at 1350 hrs


  5. So your consistent about faith based organizations as long as they aren’t allowed to actually mention their religion and they utilize gay people to perform the charitable work? The assumptions you make are built on anti-religious bigotry (that all religions are inherently discriminatory). It defies logic you would want the government to prevent a religious organization from converting people.  My guess is you have hypocrisy in your position outside faith based. That you support government funds to organizations like ACORN that consistently engage in proselytizing with the money they are given from taxpayers. I do a significant amount of volunteer work with a faith-based organization. Many of the people I volunteer with differ with me in political ideology, race, sexual orientation, gender and so on. Our goal is to help people that are in desperate need. It’s an insane position if our government becomes interested in helping people only if the qualifications of the workers/volunteers reach some bigoted definition of ‘diverse’ or worse if they can only be helped if they are the ‘right’ (non-religious) kind of people.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 05, 2009 at 1758 hrs


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