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White House Adds to Faith-Based Advisory Group

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Posted on Apr 6, 2009
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The bad rap that “faith-based initiatives” got during the last administration hasn’t kept the new management at the White House from treating its Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships seriously. It has fleshed out the lineup of advisers to a total of 25 with two new recruits.

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A Pentecostal bishop who has challenged Democrats on abortion and a representative of a national gay rights group are among nine new members of a White House advisory council.

President Barack Obama announced the appointments of Bishop Charles E. Blake and Harry Knox on Monday, filling out a 25-person roster that is part of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

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By boggs, April 7, 2009 at 10:40 am Link to this comment

Oh goody, and I wonder if they will also give all the communities our very own tooth fairy?
Obama is embracing so many of the Bush
madness schemes what are we to think?
I can tolerate Obama taking his family to church but it becomes hard to tolerate that he insists on using faith based opportunists to give tax dollars to.
GET GOD OUT OF GOVERNMENT.
Perhaps our politicians are looking for a new patsie? They can always point their finger skyward and say “He is responsible.”

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By Folktruther, April 7, 2009 at 10:01 am Link to this comment

The Gop rich and Zionists cyncially used right wing religion to support right wing policies.  When Bush recruited a sincere religious loony to his administration, he complained on leaving it that the Bushite aides referrred to the program as the “fucking faith-based inititive.”

In continuing Bushite policies, as was suggested by the questions to Obama in Turkey, the Dems are pandering to the primitive power delusions of the religiously deranged.  It is Faith as well as Hope for the Dems, trumping just Faith for the Gops.  I expect them to add Hope,however, to remain competitive.

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By Dave24, April 6, 2009 at 9:53 pm Link to this comment

Taxpayer money doesn’t belong in the bank accounts of any religious organization.  I doubt Christians want their money pouring into mosques; well I don’t want my money pouring into Christian-run programs.

The intention (ideally) behind faith-based programs is commendable; however “oversight” isn’t exactly a shining attribute of our government. 

The lunatic religious right wants to undermine secularism by inserting its ideology into public policy, so certainly the last thing such groups should be awarded is public money deriving from the rest of us.

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