ABP reports that Jim Towey, Director of the White House office of Faith-based Initiatives, said he expected there to be "continued outcry from the secular extremists" against President Bush's faith-based initiatives. His statement was designed to leave the impression that only "secular extremists" oppose the faith-based initiatives.
After enduring years of slander from Fundamentalists in the SBC, name calling doesn't make much of an impression on us. We do object, however, to politicians trying to skew the debate over government funding of religion in a way that would by-pass and ignore the objections to faith-based initiatives that come from within the community of faith.
Mr. Towey knows that many religious people object to his office's fudging over the line separating church and state. He should also know that we are not "extremists" either.
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