“Fred Davie, the openly gay president of Public/Private Ventures, has been named to serve on President Barack Obama’s Policy Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Davie will work to provide objective, nonpartisan advice to the president on a variety of public policy matters, including strategies to increase the effectiveness of social services delivered by community and faith-based organizations.” [GP]
J
One for the team. =P
I say thank fuck.
Bill Perdue
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.
jababe
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.
getreal
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.
Mister C
CONGRATULATIONS!
Brian Miller
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?
getreal
@Brian Miller: I don’t think it said they were funding the organizations. I think these organizations fund themselves.
Bill Perdue
Before the election Democrats complained bitterly about the corrupt use of federal ‘faith based’ funds as bribes for political support.
Now Obama and the Democrats are going to get even. With a vengeance. And at the expense of the Constitution and of taxpayer dollars.
Faith based funds are bribes in exchange for political support and have to be stopped.