President Obama was at the National Prayer Breakfast Thursday morning — but even in this arena the new president cannot escape controversy.
The new embroglio concerns the preident’s newly revamped Office of Faith Based Initiatives. The office was created 8 years ago by President Bush and often faith or religion based organizations took government money even though they had a record of discrimination with respect to hiring.
Now separation-of-church-and-state advocates and human-rights organizations that say the government must constitutionally compel these organizations to follow nondiscrimination laws if they accept federal funding.
Say a prayer that this all works out….
President Obama’s remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast:
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/god-and-country/2009/
2/5/president-barack-obamas-speech-at-national-pray
er-breakfast.html?s_cid=rss:god-and-country:preside
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CNN (Related):
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITI
CS/02/05/obama.faith.based/index.html
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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair (2nd R) speaks at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, February 5, 2009. From L-R are: first lady Michelle Obama, U.S. President Barack Obama, Blair and U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler (D-NC).REUTERS/Larry Downing
