Obama Appoints Gay Man to Faith-Based Council

One for the team. =P
I say thank fuck.

Fred Davie’s appointment is called covering your ass.

Faith based charity funding is bribery and is part of Obama’s effort to systematize his pandering to cult bigots. Joshua Dubois has been named his Minister of Pandering. He’ll head up the agency in charge of bribing money grubbing clerics with “faith-based’ grants. Originally the love child of senators Rick Santorum and Hillary Clinton, bribery by ‘faith-based’ grants was perfected by Karl Rove.

Now Dubois, with even more money, will use it to reinforce Obama’s pandering efforts. It’s his
Joshua Dubois organized the religious support groups for Obama’s presidential bid that began with vermin like MaryMary and Donnie McClurkin and ended with Obama’s sanctimonious vote getting statement that “god’s in the mix” at Warren’s Saddleback bigotfest. Those four words, repeated millions of times by Yes on 8 doomed our chances of defeating Prop 8.

Now Dubois will repeat, and this time with even more money, Rove’s goal of harnessing religion to politics. In practice, as we’ve seen, it’s the other way around: politics are harnessed to religion and Dobson and scum like him smiling all the way to the bank.

The Democrats (sic) are our enemies as much as the Republicans. The GLBT movement needs to create an organized fighting left wing to get anywhere.

The fact that he’s a brother(double minority) is a good thing. Time now for AA’s to see we are on the same team.

It is gratifying that a gay man will be in a position of leadership with community and faith based organizations.Coalitions can be formed if we work together.This is just one step but it is in the right direction.Actually work in the right direction trumps negativity every time.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Why is government paying for religion?

Does anybody read the friggin’ Constitution anymore?

I don’t care if he’s gay or not — why is the government, especially in this time of crisis, taxing the dwindling assets of working Americans to fund religious superstitious bigoted bullshit?

@Brian Miller: I don’t think it said they were funding the organizations. I think these organizations fund themselves.

Before the election Democrats complained bitterly about the corrupt use of federal ‘faith based’ funds as bribes for political support.

“The Bush administration has funneled at least $157 million in grants to faith based organizations run by it’s political and ideological allies. That’s right, now as the WaPo reports, conservatives that complained for years about the ‘liberal tilt of federal grant money’ are now seeing that under the Bush administration, ‘turnabout is fair play…’ Many of the leaders have been active Republicans and influential supporters of Bush’s presidential campaigns.” The Democratic Daily, March 21st, 2006

Now Obama and the Democrats are going to get even. With a vengeance. And at the expense of the Constitution and of taxpayer dollars.

“In the old days politicians would slip preachers some hundreds under the table, and preachers would deliver the flock on election day. It was borderline illegal, but at least it left the Constitution alone. The same could not be said of the Bush Administration’s faith-based initiative, a political bribe to the religious right that put a hole in the First Amendment big enough for Christ himself to walk through. Given the dismal results of the initiative–millions wasted, many lawsuits, embarrassments like special Christians-only prison units and Faith Works, which aspired to bring “homeless addicts to Christ”–you would think getting rid of federal handouts to churches for social services would be one change we’d all be ready to believe in. But no. As he announced earlier this summer, Barack Obama plans to open the spigot even wider…” The Nation, July 30th 2008.

Faith based funds are bribes in exchange for political support and have to be stopped.