Our government has already mandated federal programs and their funding in their Federal Annual Budgets. Church members are always welcome to volunteer their time to these programs.

The government provides for evaluation of these programs to determine their effectiveness and possible duplicity with other programs through PART (Program Assessment Rating Tool) Website : ExpectMore.com.

{The Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART) was developed to assess and improve program performance so that the Federal government can achieve better results. A PART review helps identify a program’s strengths and weaknesses to inform funding and management decisions aimed at making the program more effective. The PART therefore looks at all factors that affect and reflect program performance including program purpose and design; performance measurement, evaluations, and strategic planning; program management; and program results. Because the PART includes a consistent series of analytical questions, it allows programs to show improvements over time, and allows comparisons between similar programs.}

When other institutions are directing these programs, they cannot be evaluated and their efforts are often duplicated to already funded programs serving the same community. At the same time, these programs may not have the oversight of possible abuses.

The problem here is not ‘the student taking the wafer from the service he was in.’ The problem rather is here: the student took Jesus Christ — who is present and vulnerable in the Eucharist species, that is, bread and wine — from the Sacrifice of the Mass.

All that said, Obama has it backwards, the governemnt should fund ALL faith-based programs. Not just Christian ones. Of course, thanks to our fantastically ill-educated Congress, all Islamic based programs won’t see anything anyway. Not that anyone should protect their privavy right?

In any case, by funding everybody it us clean on the Law and with whichever God you choose. By telling any church, the government will monitor how you operate is about a second away from dictating how that church should be ran. And unless Obama wants a “national” religion like in Britain, or umm Nazi Germany….then he is wrong.

I thought at the time how foolish not to reimburse them for what they provided, so they could continue to help others or expand their operations. They charge nothing for their time or expenses. You just can’t beat a deal like that. I can’t think of a better or more effective way to spend taxpayer money. You can argue this issue to death, but if you are involved in a disaster, you will quickly put aside your political, social and religious predjudices and just be really happy to see them.

What exactly is the problem with the student taking the wafer from the service he was in? To many people it seems disrespectful and in bad taste, but the deeper problems and anger felt by many Catholics is not easy to understand. I hope Father Jonathan will take the time to explain it all.

People come to America for all kinds of reasons, from freedom seekers who want to establish a better life for themselves and their descendants, to freedom haters who come here seeking to destroy our way of life. But originally, folks came here to escape religious persecution. This is because all those enlightened Europeans had established official, state-sanctioned religions. If you wanted to worship God, you did so in the manner, place and time that the government dictated.

So how do faith-based initiatives establish a national religion? Simply put, they don’t. How do they prevent the free exercise of religion? Again, they don’t. Every day in this country, courts read and interpret laws according to the ordinary and obvious meaning of the words they contain. They do not read into them something that is not there, and they do not ignore something that obviously is.

Except for the U.S. Constitution: the supreme law of the land. In that case everyone is an expert and everyone has an opinion. Most of these opinions are based upon emotion rather than the wording of the actual Constitution, which the majority of Americans have never read. Take this document for what it is and what it means. It stands alone as the greatest guarantor of individual freedoms this planet has ever seen. Stop grafting your own prejudices onto it, stop reading your preconceived notions into it, and stop using it as weapon. Quit adding to and subtracting from it unless you are willing to officially Amend it. It was written by the finest minds of that generation is already quite complete. The only thing you can do with your “interpetations” is mess it up for everyone.

One only needs to look to the Government of Gods’ term Sanctuary and thus Sanctuary Cities as proof of how un-trustworthy the Governmof God really is. The term Sanctuary (here not applied to animals) means-a concecrated place (as part of a church in which the alter is placed).

In middle ages the Government of God and the European Government of Man came to an agreement about the ability of the Government of God to offer sanctuary to a person being sought by the Government of Man. But the Government of Man placed a resriction on the Government of God that the person being sought “must have their hands on the alter or be in the confessional’. No other sanctuary was to be given.

Over time The Government of God expanded its agreement with the Government of Man to include the building that the alter is in, the property that the building sits on, and the city where the property is located. This was forced upon Europe and is one of the main reasons Europe has been kept so small.

The Government of God is thus placing a-lien upon the Rights of the Government of Man in Europe.

We Americans proclaimed to all the bugs, all the insects, all the fish, all the animals, all the humans, and all the Gods/God that our Rights were and are UN-A-LIEN-ABLE. Come on Up.