White House announces new appointees to faith council

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Source: CNN

The White House announced a dozen appointments to its faith advisory council on Friday, with the leader of the nation’s largest evangelical group and the head of the nation’s leading Christian denomination serving lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people are both on the list.

National Association of Evangelicals President Leif Anderson and Nancy Wilson, head of the and Metropolitan Community Church - the nation’s largest denomination expressly serving LGBT Americans - are among the appointees to the panel, which was launched by President Barack Obama in 2009.

Lynne Hybels, wife if megachurch pastor Bill Hybels – who leads the Willow Creek Community Church outside Chicago, Illinois – is also on the list.

The White House also named Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, Executive Vice President of the Rabbinical Assembly and prominent Jewish organizational leader Susan Stern to the advisory council, which is officially called the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Stern was appointed to serve as chair of the council.



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full list of the appointees and brief biographies released by the White House
at link and here
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/02/04/president-obama-announces-more-key-administration-posts-2411

[Newest Reality]

1. Well, the current system does require

boatloads of faith, ya' know. You really have to believe so much in order for it to continue functioning at all.

... just sayin'.

[county worker]

3. I don't understand why a secular nation like ours has a faith council in the first place.

I mean should we also have a non believers council to go along with it? It's like if you say you have a religious faith you get better representation. I like the idea of keeping the faithful off my back!

[niyad]

4. my thought exactly

[RKP5637]

5. +1, n/t

[ananda]

8. That's because there is no strong left any more.

With the lack of leftist influence, the radicals and fundies fill the void.

[county worker]

14. delete posted twice

[county worker]

15. Yes. I agree with that thought.

So many don't understand the need for a left to act as a counter balance to the trend toward the right.

Without a strong left the center becomes closer to the extreme right.

When I see what is going on in Egypt I can't help but feel like this country would never rise up like that!

[mascarax]

9. Agree & when did this faith council start?

Just searched.
Looks like the whole thing started with (who else) Dubya. If he started it, it should've ended with him.

If not, I'd like to nominate Lewis Black as my representative. Since George Carlin isn't available. ;-)

[Fuddnik]

16. I nominate Bill Maher.

[Fuddnik]

23. According to the article, started by Obama in 2009.

[JanBrady]

24. Don't you notice a pattern here?

[pscot]

13. We're a faithless nation

This is just to ginn up confidence.

[krabigirl]

25. I agree~

[burrowowl]

27. I don't know either!?

[oldhippydude]

17. i have always wondered..

when W, started this whole faith based stuff, why it ever stood, and nobody challenged it on 1st amendment grounds..it seems to me if anything we should be taxing the faith industry, and not subsidizing it!!!

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[derby378]

2. No Muslims on the council, I see

That's not going to sit well with our growing Muslim population. The teabaggers are probably rejoicing.

Me, I'm thinking we don't really need a faith council, especially one that represents so few religious viewpoints in America.

[niyad]

6. no pagans that I can see, either. what the HELL is going on here? this is absolutely sickening in

a SECULAR nation. but then, obama did do the prayer breakfast thing with the "family". separation of church and state, anyone?

[derby378]

10. No Quakers, either

So yeah, I'm feeling left out. :mad:

[HowHasItComeToThis]

20. AND WHERE IS THE GREAT PROFIT ZOG

[glinda]

22. Any Buddhists at all?

[FiveGoodMen]

7. In a further betrayal of the First Amendment and everything this nation was founded upon

But par for the course, obviously.

We have been so ROYALLY had!

[niyad]

12. you know, the sad thing is, this doesn't surprise me in the least. I knew we were in trouble in

that regard when I heard obama defend a woman's right to choose, as long as she did it "prayerfully"
I nearly spit out my coffee when I heard that.

[Politicub]

11. Cool! Progress is being made!

:)

[ixion]

19. an ongoing violation of Church and State

and yet another disappointment from Obama.

[alp227]

21. unrec as gov and religion should be separate

and religion is meaningless overall. Keep religion out of politics just like corporate money out of elections.

[krabigirl]

26. We don't need a faith council. I'd like much less religion in government, please.

Obama is as bad as Bush in this regard.