"RENEWING THE AMERICAN DREAM"July 2, 2008OBAMA’S FAITH-BASED GAMBIT IS A FRAUDCatholic League president Bill Donohue urged Catholics to reject Sen. Barack Obama’s faith-based initiative:“If a customer walked into a New York deli and said, ‘Let me have a hot dog on a roll—hold the frankfurter’—he’d likely be thrown out. That’s what the public should do to Obama’s faith-based initiative: since he wants to gut the faith from his faith-based programs, he should be told to junk it.“Any church or religious agency that agrees to take federal money on the condition that it must operate in a secular fashion—in hiring and in disseminating its values—is selling out. If Orthodox Jews running a day care center are not allowed to exclusively hire Orthodox Jews, there is nothing kosher about it. If a Catholic foster care program cannot...
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