For my friends on the fringe
Here's what James Towey, Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, said in an online Q & A session in 2003:
"Colby, from Centralia MO writes:
Do you feel that Pagan faith based groups should be given the same considerations as any other group that seeks aid?
Jim Towey:
I haven't run into a pagan faith-based group yet, much less a pagan group that cares for the poor! Once you make it clear to any applicant that public money must go to public purposes and can't be used to promote ideology, the fringe groups lose interest. Helping the poor is tough work and only those with loving hearts seem drawn to it."
Yikes.
Also, Towey seems to think he has witnessed a miracle, which is pretty creepy. To his credit (i guess), though, he considers a reformed addict a miracle. And here I was thinking that people could recover from drug addiction without intervention from God that upsets the law cause and effect. Silly me.
(yeah, im commenting on something said in 2003. but for some reason, this was highlighted on the thanksgiving page at whitehouse.gov)
"Colby, from Centralia MO writes:
Do you feel that Pagan faith based groups should be given the same considerations as any other group that seeks aid?
Jim Towey:
I haven't run into a pagan faith-based group yet, much less a pagan group that cares for the poor! Once you make it clear to any applicant that public money must go to public purposes and can't be used to promote ideology, the fringe groups lose interest. Helping the poor is tough work and only those with loving hearts seem drawn to it."
Yikes.
Also, Towey seems to think he has witnessed a miracle, which is pretty creepy. To his credit (i guess), though, he considers a reformed addict a miracle. And here I was thinking that people could recover from drug addiction without intervention from God that upsets the law cause and effect. Silly me.
(yeah, im commenting on something said in 2003. but for some reason, this was highlighted on the thanksgiving page at whitehouse.gov)