At the LA Times, “Obama broadens Bush’s faith-based programs.” The same mainstream media that saw President Bush’s faith-based initiative as a threatening breach of the metaphorical wall between church and state seems to think Obama’s faith-based initiative proposals are just wonderful. It’s hard to tell who’s losing credibility faster at the moment, the media or President Obama.

For the view from Salt Lake City, see the Salt Lake Tribune’s article “LDS Church unlikely to participate in Obama’s faith-based initiatives.” Steven Waldman has provided a transcript and commentary on President Obama’s remarks outlining his faith-based initiatives at the National Prayer Breakfast this morning.