Comments on: Faith-Based Initiatives: They’re Not That Bad

By: Ceremonial Religion & the First Amendment: When an Altar is Just an Altar « Submitted to a Candid World

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:41:48 +0000

[...] of church and state, or the state appropriation of religion to its own ends? I’ve argued before that the two biggest (but perhaps not only) problems with blurring the line between church and [...]

By: Collin

Collin — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:36:14 +0000

I was busy having a migraine yesterday, but did you SEE what Jesse Jackson said about this stuff when he thought he was off-camera?

By: AKjeldsen

AKjeldsen — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:58:36 +0000

If you haven’t seen it already, there was an interesting article in Journal of Church and State 49:3 (Summer 07) about the way that FBIs are being implemented in practice, especially through the Faith-Based Liaisons.

I don’t know much about the FBIs other than what I read in that article, but it seems that as with so much else, the actual consequences are very much dependent on who is put in charge of the implementation at the local level, and on whether there are local forces that try to use it for their own agendas.

By: Dan (Fitness)

Dan (Fitness) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:39:07 +0000

Trust…. that’s the problem. I largely agree that he’ll do what we want with the courts, but its a bit odd to suggest supporting bad policy in the hopes the court will correct your mistakes.

There is no danger, by the way, in insisting the 1st amendment (at least in spirit) allows people to be nonreligious. Even if interpreted as requiring a religion, not all religions are theistic.