National prayer breakfast February 6, 2009
Posted by sophoristicallyspeaking in : Uncategorized , trackbackObama to create faith council, following through on a campaign promise
After President Obama speaks Thursday morning at the National Prayer Breakfast, he’s scheduled to return to the White House to sign an executive order forming the President’s Advisory Council on Faith. An administration official released some details tonight on condition of anonymity because the formal roll-out had not yet occured. The initiatives will include creating a 25-member council of secular and religious leaders to advise on policy issues; and a continuation of the basic structure of President Bush’s office of faith-based initiatives, with a White House Office, and Centers for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships in the executive agencies. These could run programs including job training, assimilation for ex-offenders and international programs for HIV/AIDS.
Obama last July, while campaigning, promised to roll out such a program and said it would “help set our national agenda.” He had criticized Bush’s program as politicized and underfunded. Obama also said then that he would insist that federal funds to religious groups go only to secular programs that don’t proselytize. Some advocates of faith-based groups predicted that if Obama insisted on secular hiring mandates as a result, it would frustrate religious groups of all kinds including black churches. But groups advocating church-state separation praised Obama’s pledge.
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