A Delusion-Based Global AIDS Policy

Not content with screwing up the United States, the religious right is
reaching out to screw up the rest of the world. The Bush administration
is probably more influenced by the christian right than any other
presidency in history. A prime example is Bush's Office of Faith-Based
and Community Initiatives, which provides federal funding to
'faith-based' (i.e., religious) groups to provide community services.
This funding goes to only one religion -- Office director Jim Towey
admitted in 2004 that no funding has gone to a non-Christian group.

You'd
think that getting handed money directly from the federal government
would be enough, but of course it's not -- nothing less than a
'christian' foreign policy is acceptable to them. The problem is that
there's a huge difference between 'faith-based' and 'reality-based' and
the philosophy of the religious right allows them to ignore realities
they don't approve of. For them, if the problem isn't addressed, then
the problem doesn't exist...

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