Tuesday, July 01, 2008

More mixing of religion and state?

I don't think continuing the current administration's foray into mixing religion and government is a good idea:

Obama will create a President’s Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships
As Barack Obama has said many times, he believes that change comes not from the top-down, but from the bottom-up, and few are closer to the people than our churches, synagogues, temples, and mosques. And many of the challenges we face today—from saving our planet to ending poverty—are simply too big for government to solve alone. We need all hands on deck.

That’s why Obama will help draw on their strength of these groups through the creation of a new President’s Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

July 2nd uppdate:
The headline of a beliefnet blog says it all: Obama: Bush's Faith-Based Plan Didn't Go Far Enough!

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