Talk:Faith-based initiative

Note on categories
It's always wrong when a topic falls under both "religion" and "politics". Personal note by instigator: I would prefer that NOMA was between politics and religion, not science and religion. Science can hold its own. Politics can get ugly - and stupid.

Bush
It's my impression that the FBCI builds and expands on the Charitable Choice legislation introduced by Bill Clinton in 1996 (?), so I don't think that saying it was Bush's political idea is entirely correct.

Also, maybe cut down on the PZMyers-esque polemics vs. Obama a bit? The man spend years working with FBO's in the slums of Chicago, so it's not entirely unreasonable to expect him to have a positive view of them - or maybe even a better understanding of them than most of us. -- 06:50, 14 November 2008 (EST)