"Get me a fucking faith based thing! Got it?" -Karl Rove

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http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/12/rove-faith-based/

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October 13, 2006
Book Says Bush Aides Dismissed Christian Allies
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 — A former deputy director of the White House office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives is charging that many members of the Bush administration privately dismiss its conservative Christian allies as “boorish” and “nuts.”

The former deputy director, David Kuo, an evangelical Christian conservative, makes the accusations in a newly published memoir, “Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction” (Free Press), about his frustration with what he described as the meager support and political exploitation of the program.

“National Christian leaders received hugs and smiles in person and then were dismissed behind their backs and described as ‘ridiculous,’ ‘out of control,’ and just plain ‘goofy,’ ” Mr. Kuo writes.

In an interview, Mr. Kuo’s former boss, James Towey, now president of St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pa., said he had never encountered such cynicism or condescension in the White House, and he disputed many of the assertions in Mr. Kuo’s account.

Still, Mr. Kuo’s statements, first reported Wednesday evening on the cable channel MSNBC, come at an awkward time for Republicans in the midst of a midterm election campaign in which polls show little enthusiasm among the party’s conservative Christian base.

While many conservative Christians considered President Bush “a brother in Christ,” Mr. Kuo writes, “for most of the rest of the White House staff, evangelical leaders were people to be tolerated, not people who were truly welcomed.”

The political affairs office headed by Karl Rove was especially “eye-rolling,” Mr. Kuo’s book says. It says staff members in that office “knew ‘the nuts’ were politically invaluable, but that was the extent of their usefulness.”

Without naming names, the book says staff members complained that politically involved Christians were “annoying,” “tiresome” or “boorish.”

Eryn Witcher, a spokeswoman for the White House, said that the administration would not comment without reading the book but that the faith-based program was “near and dear to the president’s heart.”

Suevon Lee contributed reporting.

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Wanna know what Ralph Reid former Christian Coalition frontman does with Jack Abramoff?

These bitches are religious when it suits them.

 

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This program was initiated as a deterrent to the social programs that already were slated to be cut. This was a means to keep down the opposition by giving money to churhes, buying loyalty, and drumming up political sentries to protect the cuts to social programs.

It's good that these silly, trifling, and gullible church folk start to realize that BushCo and the Bushmites are just part of a global organized effort to enslave humanity. How the hell can anyone believe that a man slated with secret societies, idol worshipping, and human sluaghter be associated with GOD or any divinity of "GOOD"?

Churches/Religions have always been one vessel of manipulation and control that has been used throughout history to further someone's agendas. These creatures are getting out of hand. Just pay attention to waht is going on around you people, not just politics, but everthing. Just look and THINK.:yes:

 

[Makkonnen]

wow remember this?

 

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Associated Press
By ERIC GORSKI and
PHILIP ELLIOTT
February 5, 2009


WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will ask for a legal review of the White House faith-based office before deciding whether to allow federally funded religious groups to hire only their own.

Obama planned to sign an executive order on Thursday forming the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, the White House said.

But the order also directs White House staff and lawyers and the Justice Department to develop a policy that would guide how government-supported programs can hire staff, according to a religious leader with knowledge of the plans. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the details have not been released.

The deliberate approach is unlikely to please either conservative religious leaders, who worry they'll need to compromise their religious beliefs to participate, or liberal religious and secular leaders, who quickly want to undo Bush administration hiring policies.

"Neither side is going to get exactly what they want," the religious leader said.

Obama plans to attend the National Prayer Breakfast with his wife, Michelle, at the Hilton Washington Thursday morning, the White House said, then return to the Oval Office to sign the executive order. The partnerships would expand and refocus the faith-based office founded by former President George W. Bush.

The president will also appoint Joshua DuBois, a 26-year-old Pentecostal minister who headed religious outreach for Obama's Senate office and later his campaign, to lead the partnerships office and name 25 religious and secular leaders to a new advisory board.

During his presidential campaign, Obama said he wanted to expand White House faith-based efforts begun under Bush. But while he endorsed Bush's initiative to give religious groups more access to federal funding, he also promised to make some changes to the office.

"Now, make no mistake, as someone who used to teach constitutional law, I believe deeply in the separation of church and state, but I don't believe this partnership will endanger that idea — so long as we follow a few basic principles," Obama said during a campaign speech in Zanesville, Ohio.

Obama's advisers want to be certain tax dollars sent to the faith-based social service groups are used for secular purposes, such as feeding the hungry or housing the homeless, and not for religious evangelism. The administration doesn't want to be perceived as managing the groups yet does want transparency and accountability.

Obama pledged during the campaign to allow taxpayer-funded religious institutions to hire and fire based on religion — but only for the activities run on private funding.

One question is whether the faith-based office will issue grants under the Bush rules while the hiring policy is worked out.

Jim Wallis, a member of the new advisory council, downplayed the significance of the hiring issue, saying it came up only once in transition meetings. Poverty, human trafficking and the Middle East were discussed in much more detail, he said.

"I'm sure it will come up, but it's not the dominant issue," said Wallis, founder of the liberal Christian social-justice network Sojourners.

The council is also expected to weigh in on the hiring issue, with no timeframe set for resolution.

Associated Press writer Eric Gorski in Denver contributed to this report.

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