In a great article on President Barack Obama’s White House's Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Sarah Posner notes a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090727/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_overhaul"an alarming amount of warmed-over Bushism/a on faith-based issues. One example:br /blockquoteObama has reneged on his pledge, made in a July 2008 speech in Zanesville, Ohio, to undo Bush-era rules permitting direct taxpayer funding of religious institutions and allowing institutions that receive federal grants to engage in hiring discrimination based on religion./blockquotebr /That, in turn, has this response from Rev. Barry Lynn:br /blockquote"I am very disappointed that President Obama's faith-based program is being rolled out without barring evangelism and religious discrimination in taxpayer-funded programs," says Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. "It should be obvious that taxpayer-funded religious bias offends our civil rights laws, our Constitution and our shared sense of values."/blockquotebr /I could have told you this was likely a year ago.br /br /Meanwhile, allegedly progressive evangelicals like Jim Wallis have been giving Obama political cover even as he definitely tacks to the right on abortion and what religious activists he plays to.br /br /Anyway, read a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090727/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_overhaul"the full four pages/a for details of yet another Obama selloutdiv class="blogger-post-footer"There is no god and I am his prophet.img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7532871-8470340386900856537?l=socraticgadfly.blogspot.com'//div
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