Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair met new US President Barack Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington. President Obama was announcing faith-based initiatives to work with communities. Current PM Gordon Brown has not yet made Mr Obama's acquaintance.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair met new US President Barack Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington.
President Obama was announcing faith-based initiatives to work with communities.
Current PM Gordon Brown has not yet made Mr Obama's acquaintance.
Uh...
Heckuva job, Beebie. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
Apparently that is a huge difference.
Disgusting.
President's Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships | WSJ | 5 Feb 2009
The president found one of the problems with the previous initiative was that tough questions were decided without appropriate consideration and data," Mr. [Joshua] DuBois said in an interview Wednesday. President Obama, he said, "doesn't have an interest in rushing questions that are so complex." "Instead, the president will sign an executive order making clear that the director of the new office should seek guidance from the Department of Justice on specific legal issues regarding "how to respect the Constitution" and nondiscrimination laws, Mr. DuBois said. The same case-by-case approach will govern another tricky question: whether federal funds can pay for secular portions of programs that also include proselytization, he said. ... But the new [sic] approach will please people like David Kuo, who was deputy director of the Bush faith-based office, and who says that too much energy was spent on questions that have little impact in the real world. ... In unveiling the office Thursday at a morning prayer breakfast, Mr. Obama will set out a structure that is similar to the Bush program: a White House office supplemented by offices in 11 federal agencies [exactly the Bush organization]. He will add a new 25-member advisory council made up of a diverse group of religious and some secular leaders. ... The goals, Mr. DuBois said, will include ensuring access to health care and support for adoption. The office also will also be asked to encourage interfaith dialogue "at home and, more pressingly, abroad," he said."
"Instead, the president will sign an executive order making clear that the director of the new office should seek guidance from the Department of Justice on specific legal issues regarding "how to respect the Constitution" and nondiscrimination laws, Mr. DuBois said.
The same case-by-case approach will govern another tricky question: whether federal funds can pay for secular portions of programs that also include proselytization, he said. ...
But the new [sic] approach will please people like David Kuo, who was deputy director of the Bush faith-based office, and who says that too much energy was spent on questions that have little impact in the real world. ...
In unveiling the office Thursday at a morning prayer breakfast, Mr. Obama will set out a structure that is similar to the Bush program: a White House office supplemented by offices in 11 federal agencies [exactly the Bush organization]. He will add a new 25-member advisory council made up of a diverse group of religious and some secular leaders. ...
The goals, Mr. DuBois said, will include ensuring access to health care and support for adoption. The office also will also be asked to encourage interfaith dialogue "at home and, more pressingly, abroad," he said."
See the peenackers' bible, The Quiet Revolution, The President's Faith-Based and Community Initiative: A Seven-Year Progress Report (Washington DC: White House) 2008, 122pp, in particular Chapter 4: "Measurement Matters: Objectives, Outcomes, and Accountability" Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
