Neutering Faith

It's nice that Obama came around to Bush's view on Faith Based Initiatives. However, it should be noted that this looks much more like a cynical ploy on Obama's part once you realize that he's totally toeing the liberal line on one of the most controversial aspects of the Initiative: whether religious charities that take funds from the government should be allowed to limit their staffing to members of their own religion. Obama's position: force churches to hire anyone. You take the government money, you also have to hire the Wiccan, the Satanist, and Christopher Hitchens. This is a position which unfairly forces religious charities to water down their religious nature and thus becomes a way to stealthily impose a liberal agenda on religious organizations. Shame. Let faith-based organizations be faith-based organizations.