LGBT Leaders Weigh Obama's Faith-Based Initiative LGBT activists are riled up ov

[Shana A]

LGBT Leaders Weigh Obama's Faith-Based Initiative
LGBT activists are riled up over Obama's White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, saying the program lacks antidiscrimination protections for LGBT people.
By Kerry Eleveld
An Advocate.com exclusive posted February 7, 2009

http://www.advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid72719.asp

President Barack Obama signed an executive order last Thursday that created a White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships -- a 2.0 version of the Bush administration's faith-based initiative that will seek to strike more of a balance between secular and religious organizations in bringing aid to the nation's neediest.

"There is a force for good greater than government," President Obama said at the signing, "that reveals itself not simply in places of worship, but in senior centers and shelters, schools and hospitals, and any place an American decides."
 

[RebeccaFog]

I thought we were thru with faith-based garbage.

Tax the churches.  They're just another form of casino anyway.

[tekla]

Ya, bet your afterlife.  And yeah, this entire notion was farking unconstitutional from the get go, and should have been scrapped.

[Kaelin]

There's sort of the obvious notions that many of "faith-based" organizations may discriminate in their application of charity or in their hiring of people for these problems.  But even religious organizations that handle these functions correctly, as well as any other type organization (business, another non-profit) with a non-profit branch, can benefit from a little "free advertising" with the help of tax-payer dollars.  Ideally, any sort of charity dollars probably should be limited to stand-alone charities, all of which must not discriminate against any in a broad range of factors in terms of hiring, purpose, or service.

I've generally felt the United States government has a conservative wing and a really conservative wing.