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		<title>Faith Based Iniative &#8211; Why is nobody asking about it now?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In reading up on my religious news, this Wall Street Journal article popped up.  It got me thinking&#8230; why IS nobody asking about President (edited to add, President) Obama&#8217;s Faith Based Initiative now (and about all the ways it is not supporting the idea of separation of church and state)?  Why is the Faith Based [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reading up on my religious news, <a href="http://leavingreligion.com/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL29ubGluZS53c2ouY29tL2FydGljbGUvU0IxMDAwMTQyNDA1Mjk3MDIwNDczMTgwNDU3NDM5MTE4Mzc2OTQzMjI4NC5odG1sPw==">this Wall Street Journal article</a> popped up.  It got me thinking&#8230; why IS nobody asking about President (edited to add, President) Obama&#8217;s Faith Based Initiative now (and about all the ways it is not supporting the idea of separation of church and state)?  Why is the Faith Based Initiative only evil and bad when President Bush is behind it?  Why is it not just as bad as when President (edited to add, President) Obama is behind it&#8230; especially given it is THE SAME EXACT initiative President Bush put in place?</p>
<blockquote><p>This scant media attention is all the more incredible given that, as Americans United for Separation of Church and State has noted, Mr. Obama has left &#8220;the entire architecture of the Bush Faith-Based Initiative intact—every rule, every regulation, every executive order.&#8221; More controversially, the office has become a major hub of political outreach.</p></blockquote>
<p>In my opinion&#8230; it is just as much a problem today, as it was in 2007.  It is just as important to keep track of as it has ever been.  The Republicans are not the only people who seem to have a loose interpretation of separation of church and state.  The Democrats have it to.  President (edited to add, President) Obama has kept the same exact initiative that Bush had, in place.  What do you think about that?  He has not added any more transparency to it than Bush did&#8230; what do you think about that?</p>
<p>So&#8230; do you care less now that the plan is under President (edited to add, President) Obama, or do you care just as much?  Why do you think it gets less coverage now, when the issue is still an important one to shed light on?</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think we should just sit around and say nothing just because President (edited to add, President) Obama is now in charge.  We should place the same scrutiny on the initiative as we did before.</p>
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