[risk]

Your rhetoric is superb, but you're just glossing over the fact that the Faith Based Ministries program gives money to mosques. That gives money to Islamic organizations. I don't like it. To me, it illustrates why there is a problem with this program. Be my guest and go on record supporting the federal funding of Islam in this country (even in such limited terms), but I will criticize you and the Whitehouse for it.

[FreeReign]

...Faith Based Ministries program gives money to mosques. That gives money to Islamic organizations. I don't like it. To me, it illustrates why there is a problem with this program.

There are certain passages in the Koran I find offensive. There are certain things I find offensive about what some secular organizations advocate.

If you believe that the federal government shouldn't subsidize any form of charity then I wouldn't disagree with you on that. If you believe that the federal government should subsidize secular-based charity work but not all religious-based charity work then I disagree with you.

Be my guest and go on record supporting the federal funding of Islam in this country (even in such limited terms), but I will criticize you and the Whitehouse for it.

There is no federal funding of Islam. The following passage says it all.

whitehouse.gov |Equal Treatment for Faith-Based Providers | Excerpt:In fact, faith-based organizations have every right to hold, express and practice their deepest convictions, so long as any inherently religious and worship-centered activities are separate, voluntary, and privately funded.

Be my guest and go on record showing that you don't understand the above White House statement. I will criticize you for.