O(Pinn)ion: Reevaluating a Faith-Based Nation
While it’s great that Obama’s faith-based program addresses nonbelief, without the proper vigilance we’ll simply get superficial “tolerance” of secularists with an assumed theistic backstory.
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Religious Right to Newsweek: ‘Woe to [You] for Even Printing This’
RD News Round-Up—December 15, 2008: Bush’s Faith-Based Initiative after 8 years; ‘War on Christmas’ mash-up; Religious Right layoffs and cutbacks, ‘Prop. 8—The Musical,’ Prop. 8 Gear, and the first Vietnamese American elected to Congress.
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Top Ten Religious Right groups rake in more than half-a-billion dollars; Churches v. Christian Zionism; Bush turns to faith-based groups to bail US out of health care crisis; Saving the GOP from itself?
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Faith-Based Initiatives in the Obama Administration?
If the Obama Administration sticks with Bush’s faith-based initiatives they would do well to avoid the numerous mistakes and predilection for corruption that haunted the Bush version.
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By the Way: Revolting Evangelicals
Conservative evangelicals plan to protest for the right to endorse candidates from the pulpit; they forget that their tax-free existence is a right, not a privilege…
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Obama’s Faith-Based Makeover
Obama pledges to remake Bush’s faith-based initiative. No one is pleased…
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Organizing with Obama: Faith in Action
The “compassionate conservatism” of the Bush era was based on the idea that “sinful sloth” leads to poverty, and only religion can cure such a weakness. But the underpinning of Obama’s faith-based plan is political, not theological…
Read MoreObama’s Turn to the Right
Any faith-based plan to combat poverty, including Obama’s, is threatening to the rights of poor LGBTQ Americans, who have always been discriminated against by religious organizations…
Read More“Junk Religion”: White House Fills Remaining Faith-Based Slots
The 10 remaining picks did little to rectify the anti-reform, anti-woman, anti-gay tilt of Obama’s Faith-Based Advisory Council. Not to mention the conspicuous absence of a single academic theologian.
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White House Conference Call Seeks Common Ground on Abortion
On Friday White House officials launched a campaign to appease those on all sides of the abortion issue. Do they realize it’s nearly as thorny as Israel/Palestine?
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