{"id":275,"date":"2008-11-09T22:22:32","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T22:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/progressiverevival\/2008\/11\/the-future-of-faith-based-init.html"},"modified":"2008-11-09T22:22:32","modified_gmt":"2008-11-09T22:22:32","slug":"the-future-of-faith-based-init","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/progressiverevival\/2008\/11\/the-future-of-faith-based-init.html","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Faith Based Initiatives"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post ran an interesting article about the future of the office of Community and Faith Based Initiatives<\/a><\/p>\n

Pointing to his spiritually-laced campaign rhetoric and outreach to religious groups, liberal faith-based organizations have high expectations that President-elect Barack Obama<\/font><\/a> will increase funding for their activities and warmly welcome their lobbying on poverty, climate change and other issues. <\/p>\n

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But analysts across the ideological spectrum said that much of what the Obama administration might propose for faith-based organizations is unclear and that the new president could face legal challenges about whether religious groups can discriminate against gay people and those of religions other than their own in hiring. <\/p>\n

Liberal faith groups among Catholics, Jews, mainline Protestants and progressive evangelicals have felt left out of efforts by President Bush’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives over the past eight years and are looking forward to more attention from Obama. <\/p>\n

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