{"id":118,"date":"2010-11-23T15:59:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T15:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/religionandpubliclife\/2010\/11\/sauce-for-bachmanns-goose.html"},"modified":"2010-11-23T15:59:08","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T15:59:08","slug":"sauce-for-bachmanns-goose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/religionandpubliclife\/2010\/11\/sauce-for-bachmanns-goose.html","title":{"rendered":"Sauce for Bachmann’s goose"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michele Bachmann is such a fan of faith-based initiatives that Bachmann and Associates, the Christian counseling center she co-owns with her husband, has received<\/a> $30,000 in Minnesota state funds over the past three years. It’s a place where, according to Dr. Marcus Bachmann, Jesus Christ is the “Almighty Counselor.”<\/p>\n

Comes now the Park51 Islamic cultural center with an application<\/a> to the Lower Manhattan Redevelopment Corporation for some $5 million in public funds to provide<\/a> “all the residents of Lower Manhattan” with “domestic violence prevention, Arabic and other foreign language classes,
\nprograms and services for homeless veterans, two multi-cultural art
\nexhibits and immigration services.”<\/p>\n

Perhaps not surprisingly, Bachmann is less than happy about that particular initiative. “Outrageous to even consider federal funds go to building a mosque at Ground Zero,” tweets<\/a> she.
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