Tempting Faith: Bush Admin Admits Discriminating Against Non-Christians 
Part I,
"Tempting Faith: Bush's 'Faith Based' Initiative a Scam"PART II, "Tempting Faith: Bush Betrays Christian Conservatives"
PART III, "Tempting Faith: Bush Admin: Christian Cons are "Nuts", "Ridiculous""
In Part IV, Kuo reveals the administration's deliberate and conscious discrimination of non-Christian and otherwise non-Bush-supportive groups.
Clearly this is the most egregious trespass (among many) to American values laid out in Kuo's book -- a clear desecration of the first amendment.
Kuo charges that "the White House's own rationale for pushing the faith-based initiative -- an effort to make it easier for churches and other sectarian organizations to receive federal social-service funding -- was bogus."
(More over the flip...)
Bush and his lieutenants regularly argued that religious groups had been unfairly shut out of many government grant programs because of their faith-based nature. However, Kuo said, that may not have been the case."Finding [examples of such discrimination against religious groups] became a huge priority," he wrote. "If President Bush was making the world a better place for faith-based groups, we had to show it was really a bad place to begin with. But, in fact, it wasn't that bad at all."
But it was that fabricated victimization that allowed and encouraged the administration to try this:
Kuo alleges that Bush officials administering grant programs under the initiative favored faith groups politically friendly to the administration -- even going so far as to discriminate against non-Christian groups.He quoted an unnamed member of a review panel who rated grant applications for one such program: "When I saw one of those non-Christian groups in the set I was reviewing, I just stopped looking at them and gave them a zero...a lot of us did.'"
When asked for a response to Kuo's book, Christian Conservative leader James Dobson's group, Focus On The Family responded thusly (Paraphrased by Hotline):
"There's no possible way that our allies could ever have said stuff behind our backs like that. Right? Right?"
It's undeniably true...
KEYWORDS: David Kuo, Keith Olbermann, Tempting Faith, Bush Administration, Christian Right, Evangelical Christians, James Dobson, Focus on the Family, Moral Majority, Christian Coalition, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Lies, Elections, Republicans, Ted Haggard, Michael Reagan
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