{"id":411,"date":"2009-02-05T13:48:15","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T13:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/progressiverevival\/2009\/02\/faith-based-office-20.html"},"modified":"2009-02-05T13:48:15","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T13:48:15","slug":"faith-based-office-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/progressiverevival\/2009\/02\/faith-based-office-20.html","title":{"rendered":"Faith Based Office 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post writes about President Obama&#8217;s new<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/02\/05\/AR2009020500834.html?hpid=topnews\"> Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships<\/a>. \u00a0It looks like a diverse group of advisors will be assembled from different religious traditions and politics perspectives. \u00a0And \u00a0a closer look will be given to money going to religious groups that only hire people of their own faith:<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast at the Capital Hilton in Washington this morning, Obama said the goal of the initiative &#8220;will not be to favor one religious group over another &#8212; or even religious groups over secular groups. It will simply be to work on behalf of those organizations that want to work on behalf of our communities, and to do so without blurring the line our founders wisely drew between church and state.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">The office&#8217;s new director, Joshua Dubois, said today that Obama will sign an executive order requiring his office to seek guidance from the attorney general on constitutional issues, including religious hiring.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">I wonder how Attorney General Holder will view these important questions and how the Advisory Council, which consists of people of different perspectives on these church\/state issues will come to any consensus. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post writes about President Obama&#8217;s new Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. \u00a0It looks like a diverse group of advisors will be assembled from different religious traditions and politics perspectives. \u00a0And \u00a0a closer look will be given to money going to religious groups that only hire people of their own faith: Speaking&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-in-the-public-square"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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