Obama wants to expand Bush's faith-based programs

Reaching out to religious voters, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama called for expanding President Bush's program steering federal social service dollars to religious groups and — in a move sure to cause controversy — supported some ability to hire and fire based on faith.

"In time, I came to see faith as being both a personal commitment to Christ and a commitment to my community; that while I could sit in church and pray all I want, I wouldn't be fulfilling God's will unless I went out and did the Lord's work," he said.

Read moar:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25473529

Read the article, AP and NBC misquoted his campaign. Never trust the American corporate media.

he stil wonts to expand funding for fathe based programmes.
he also opposed the supreme court decision overturning deth penalty for chiled rape.

hou reactienary he he ? he is reactienary of elephantine proprtions.

He's just trying to get the religous people away from McCain. I trust that he won't do anything that breaks the seperation of church and state.

lets al place our trust in teh bourgeois polotocian.