No matter what Welton Gaddy might hope, anti-gay religious groups are not interested in finding common ground on marriage equality—they need the conflict to fill their coffers.
RDPulpit: They Plug Up Their Ears With Bible Verses
Religious people who want their government to deny legal marriage to gays and lesbians ought to think more clearly about the rights they would lose if the wall between church and state were to crumble.
While it’s great that Obama’s faith-based program addresses nonbelief, without the proper vigilance we’ll simply get superficial “tolerance” of secularists with an assumed theistic backstory.
The truth about the secret anti-faith clause in the stimulus package.
By the Way: A Radically Conservative “Faith-Based Initiative”
Obama’s Bush-era strategy of using taxpayer money for faith-based social services not only risks infusing politics into religion, but also denies religious groups their traditional responsibility for caring for those in need—with their own funds.
Obama seems to be backpedaling on the issue of “allowable discrimination.” Appropriating tax dollars to bigoted faith groups is not the change we were looking for.