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Obama asks faith-based groups to help him get his message out about the Democrats health-care-reform legislation.

Politico reports:

With health reform?s popularity steadily slipping, top administration officials turned to faith-based groups that supported the law to do their part explaining it. On an hour-long conference call Tuesday, they outlined the Patients? Bill of Rights and asked faith-based and community groups to get the word out on the new provisions. ?I wanted to have this call because we have a big day coming up, the six-month anniversary of health reform?s passage,? President Obama told leaders on the conference call, hosted through Health and Human Services? Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Obama later added that, ?The debate in Washington is over, the Affordable Care Act is now law. ...I think all of you can be really important validators and trusted resources for friends and neighbors, to help explain what?s now available to them.? Joshua DuBois, head of the White House?s Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, got even more specific: ?Get the word out there, get information out there. Make use of the resources described on this call: the website, door hangers, one pagers and so forth. We?ve got work to do.?

Religion as the handmaiden of government, serving as really important validators and trusted resources for friends and neighbors. Worldly power seeks to inflate itself with whatever credibility religion can cede.

Once you are the really important validator of government, can you be a really important validator of God?


"No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other."

Full post as published by Althouse on September 23, 2010 (boomark / email).