Will Churches With Republican Clergy and Members Seek $$$ Support From President Obama’s Faith-Based Program?

Question by anderson: Will churches with Republican clergy and members seek $ $ $ support from President Obama’s faith-based program?
President Obama spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington about the help all community organizations – religious and secular – will receive that will cover everything from helping people facing home mortgage foreclosures to providing job-training for those in need of work.

Under Bush, the office had supported the federal government’s investment of more than $ 2 billion a year in private, mostly faith-based charities providing social services.

“The goal of this office will not be to favor one religious group over another or even religious groups over secular groups,” Obama said before signing an executive order establishing the office and an advisory council. “It will simply be to work on behalf of those organizations that want to work on behalf of our communities, and to do so without blurring the line that our founders wisely drew between church and state.”

Obama talked about the role of faith in his life and the need to “bridge the many beliefs of Americans.” He even emphasized including those without a religious faith, as he notes, he was raised before becoming a Christian.

Obama said at the Prayer Breakfast, “I was not raised in a particularly religious household. I had a father who was born a Muslim but became an atheist, grandparents who were non-practicing Methodists and Baptists, and a mother who was skeptical of organized religion. . . I didn’t become a Christian until many years later, when I moved to the South Side of Chicago after college and worked as a community organizer among churches. It was on those streets, in those neighborhoods, that I first heard God’s Spirit beckon me.”

Heading the new Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships is Josh DuBois, 26, a Pentecostal minister who directed the religious outreach portion of Obama’s campaign.

“Joshua understands the issues at stake, knows the people involved, and will be able to bring everyone together from both the secular and faith-based communities, from academia and politics – around our common goals,” the report notes Obama saying.

The office will have four priorities, the White House says:

* Making community groups an integral part of the nation’s economic recovery and making poverty “a burden fewer have to bear when recovery is complete.”

* Offering advice on supporting women and children, addressing teenage pregnancy and reducing the need for abortion.

* Supporting fathers “who stand by their families,” helping young men find well-paying jobs and promoting “responsible fatherhood.”

* Working with the National Security Council to foster interfaith dialogue with leaders and scholars around the world.
AZAZA: you answer to the question is……?

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Answer by Robin
it will be interesting to see
where the money goes

i think that most of the charity activities of the government should go through churches or similar non-religious organizations

and that the funding is better from the people than from the government having robbed the people to appear generous

organizations nearer the recipients would do a better job than blanket “entitlements”

Answer by zaza
He didn’t become a Christian until he realized that he would never make it in American politics unless he “proclaimed” he was one. I will never believe Obama is a Christian. He is scripted. He is calculated. He is a liar.

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