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Erroneous AP Report: Obama to Support "Hiring And Firing Based On Faith" | 213 comments (213 topical)
Eventually, this faith-based program (5.00 / 2) (#86)
by inclusiveheart on Tue Jul 01, 2008 at 09:41:06 AM EST
stuff will be exposed as one big opportunity for scamming the government out of money through largely unregulated religious institutions.

This whole thing got its momentum from the fact that the Methodist Church was doing really, really good work on AIDS in Africa.  A marriage between left and right was born out of the fact that as a religious institution, the Methodist Church was barred from receiving US federal funding for their good work.

The problem though is that not every religious instituion is as stellar at delivering services as that particular group is and eventually someone is going to start looking at the rate of waste and fraud - and I think it will be stunning - especially in places like Africa where tracking expenditures is much harder.  Obama likely won't be the guy who scrutinizes these orgs, but the time will come - at least I hope it will.

What I know to be true about the Methodists' work in Africa on AIDS, still does not make a convincing argument in favor of funding religious organizations with US federal money.

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Erroneous AP Report: Obama to Support "Hiring And Firing Based On Faith" | 213 comments (213 topical)

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