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In February, the Biden administration celebrated the “first anniversary of the reestablishment of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.” Most Americans probably don’t even know such an office exists. George W. Bush had created it to give faith-based charities access to federal grants. But that’s clearly not Biden’s motivation for maintaining the office. In the case of Christian adoption and foster care agencies, Biden has blocked, not facilitated, access to federal money, which has resulted in a lawsuit against his administration.
For Biden, the office exists not to protect faith-based charities but to enlist them in his left-wing politics. The office’s supposed first-year accomplishments, according to his administration, include: pushing his vaccine mandates, fighting “systematic racism,” “strengthening pluralism,” supporting porous immigration policies, and advancing his climate change activism.
The office should be renamed the White House Office of Politicizing Faith-Based Charities. Its current work has nothing to do with religion per se. Biden’s use of the office would have brought a smile to the face of Saul Alinsky, the notorious community organizer who popularized the politicization of religion. An agnostic, Alinsky urged his disciples to exploit churches in their work, as they provide a “passport of morality,” reams of money, and organizational resources. In an interview with Playboy , Alinsky bragged about his easy manipulation of the Catholic Church in Chicago.
On all things COVID, the Biden administration has been openly Alinskyite, using churches to promote its decrees while denying religious exemptions to their members, a matter on which the administration continues to lose in court. Melissa Rogers, who heads up the White House Office of Faith-Based Charities and Neighborhood Partnerships, has written about the value of using churches as vaccine clinics: “Some Americans are far more comfortable getting their shot in a house of worship than in a […]
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