Ok, I just got ______________________
This is an official statement from the “faith based initiative”
representative, , posted on the white house website…
read this through, then act as appropriate!
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.
The quote they are complaining about is actually located at
http://www.whitehouse.gov/ask/20031126.html
FROM: Pagan Unity Campaign
Date: Nov. 26th, 2003
Subject: Offensive bigoted prejudicial quote by James Towey on behalf
of the White House.
Contact: Ginger@PaganUnityCampaign.org (828) 230-1273
James Towey the White House Deputy Assistant to the President and
Director, Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives hosted a Q
and A session on Whitehouse.gov web site today, and amazingly
answered a thoughtful question for a PUC staffer, with this idiotic
bigoted reply:
————Quoted from http://www.whitehouse.gov 11/26/2003—
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.
———————end of quote——————————
The Pagan Community needs to make the administration aware that not
only do members of minority faiths have “loving hearts” But that we
in fact DON’T EVER try to promote ideology like the Christian faiths
who base their whole religions on ‘saving’ others. We also need to
snow under this man’s office with introductions of the varied and
numerous Pagan faith-based groups that of course “care for the poor.”
PUC encourages all Pagans to send Mr.Towey Yule cards this Yuletide
season, along with PUC. Together we shall try to educate this man who
is suppose to be a religious expert for the current administration,
about the various Faiths who have followers in Lady Liberty’s land!!!
Address your cards, letters, telephone calls, and faxes to him at:
Jim Towey, Director
The White House
Washington, DC 20502
(202) 456-6708 (phone)
(202) 456-7019 (fax)
http://www.fbci.gov in my in-box. For those of you, nutty pagans out there, write, call, fax and prove this fucker wrong.
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