PRESIDENT OBAMA SPEAKING AT THE NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST THIS MORNING...
OBAMA TO CREATE FAITH-BASED OFFICE
By PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press
WASHINGTON – 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" and all religions teach people to love and care for one another. That is the common ground underlying his faith-based office, he said....
Obama planned to sign an executive order later in the day creating the White House Office on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. It would expand and refocus the faith-based office founded by former President George W. Bush....
yahoo report
I JUST DON'T LIKE IT!
I've always been very concerned about this entire "faith based initiative" issue... from the get-go.
Didn't care for it under Bush, don't care for this new development under Obama either. We are talking American tax payer's money here, being placed into the hands of "faith" groups... and I am just skeptical of it.
For one thing, how are we going to define a "faith" group? Obama seems pretty insistent that the category is going to be very broad. Pretty soon your are going to be talking about the government using "faith" groups to simply become the distributing arm of one more government social program.
And, not just people being sucked into government dependency, but now you have "faith" groups becoming dependent on our tax dollars as well.
The faith groups will be paying lease payments on their own facilities, utility payments, and of course salary payments for their employees doing the "faith based ministries"... from the tax dollars... therefore the groups themselves become dependent on tax money for their existence.
I've seen it happening under Bush's plan, and it will no doubt continue under Obama's plan as well.
I just don't like it.
Let the church be the church... and do the work of the church... and keep the government out of our accounts and ministries... period.
xtnyoda, shalomed
OBAMA TO CREATE FAITH-BASED OFFICE
By PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press
WASHINGTON – 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" and all religions teach people to love and care for one another. That is the common ground underlying his faith-based office, he said....
Obama planned to sign an executive order later in the day creating the White House Office on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. It would expand and refocus the faith-based office founded by former President George W. Bush....
yahoo report
I JUST DON'T LIKE IT!
I've always been very concerned about this entire "faith based initiative" issue... from the get-go.
Didn't care for it under Bush, don't care for this new development under Obama either. We are talking American tax payer's money here, being placed into the hands of "faith" groups... and I am just skeptical of it.
For one thing, how are we going to define a "faith" group? Obama seems pretty insistent that the category is going to be very broad. Pretty soon your are going to be talking about the government using "faith" groups to simply become the distributing arm of one more government social program.
And, not just people being sucked into government dependency, but now you have "faith" groups becoming dependent on our tax dollars as well.
The faith groups will be paying lease payments on their own facilities, utility payments, and of course salary payments for their employees doing the "faith based ministries"... from the tax dollars... therefore the groups themselves become dependent on tax money for their existence.
I've seen it happening under Bush's plan, and it will no doubt continue under Obama's plan as well.
I just don't like it.
Let the church be the church... and do the work of the church... and keep the government out of our accounts and ministries... period.
xtnyoda, shalomed
posted by XtnYoda at 9:15 AM
1 Comments:
Yes the group was very broad that he spoke of, I think he even mentioned those who didnt believe anything....
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