Response to Lefties Going Nuts Over Obama's Faith Based Ideas

The separation of church and state means that the government will not legislate to benefit or support one particular religion over another. In theory, if atheists came out with a rehabilitative service to the citizenry, they would be just as viable for government support.

It is more to protect the citizenry of a state enforced faith, which is what the puritans were trying to escape from when they settled here.

I think Obama's move is to encourage assistance in dealing with our social problems, due to the state of our national debt. We will have to pull together and encourage benevolence in our communities.

I can understand your frustration; however to expect Obama to exclude the conversation about faith from the dialogue of restoring dignity to our country, would be to diminish our potential. It is really about inclusiveness, which includes people of ALL faiths. What he is talking about is a return to the basic principles of going about doing good, which would be quite refreshing. I cannot imagine that a secular group of citizens who were providing service to the community would be denied the same resources. I think that rather than expecting government to provide these all of these services, he is calling to service, encouraging the service of those so inclined. Not people of a particular faith—that would be wrong.

For too many years, Republicans have tried to infer that Democrats are ungodly and that they are the party of "family values." And it is just not true. There are many people of faith that do not go along with the Republican talking points, and I for one do not feel that we should just roll over and let this culture of corruption define what it is to be a person of faith.

I totally agree that politics from the pulpit should be a deal breaker. If you're feeding the poor, fine. If your tell people how to vote, you lose your tax exempt status. That's the way that I would like to see it.