Politics and Religion

[Dill]

(03-04-2021, 07:57 PM)Lucidus Wrote: I was very disappointed in President Biden's reinstatement of the Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

There need not be any "faith-based" governmental offices, nor directors of faith-based programs in the White House.

They could have simply created an Office of Community Initiatives and Partnerships; the office being absent of faith-based appeasement and empowerment. Instead, yet another President felt the need to placate to the religious.

Aha. An on topic post!

I did not like the concept of "faith-based" initiatives in the Bush administration, which among other things excepted groups like the Salvation Army from federal hiring practices while allowing them to get federal money. As a result, non-Christians were fired.

But in this case I am wondering if, perhaps, this is part of an effort to be more bi-partisan, to address the "other side" through its own language and policies. "Placating the religious" might be politically expedient right now.

Look at the goals Biden and Harris want to address through this program.


https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/02/14/fact-sheet-president-biden-reestablishes-the-white-house-office-of-faith-based-and-neighborhood-partnerships/