Post by jadedsage on Nov 29, 2003 13:45:01 GMT -5
This was posted at another site I belong to.... thought I would share it with everyone here
James Towey the White House Deputy Assistant to the President and Director, Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives hosted a Q and A session on Whitehouse.gov web site today, and amazingly answered a thoughtful question for a PUC staffer, with this idiotic bigoted reply:
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The Pagan Community needs to make the administration aware that not only do members of minority faiths have "loving hearts" But that we in fact DON'T EVER try to promote ideology like the Christian faiths who base their whole religions on 'saving' others. We also need to snow under this man's office with introductions of the varied and numerous Pagan faith-based groups that of course "care for the poor."
PUC encourages all Pagans to send Mr.Towey Yule cards this Yuletide season, along with PUC. Together we shall try to educate this man who is suppose to be a religious expert for the current administration, about the various Faiths who have followers in Lady Liberty's land!!!
Address your cards, letters, telephone calls, and faxes to him at:
Jim Towey, Director
The White House
Washington, DC 20502
(202) 456-6708 (phone)
(202) 456-7019 (fax)
www.fbci.gov
Contac PUC at Ginger@PaganUnityCampaign.org
James Towey the White House Deputy Assistant to the President and Director, Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives hosted a Q and A session on Whitehouse.gov web site today, and amazingly answered a thoughtful question for a PUC staffer, with this idiotic bigoted reply:
--- Quoted from www.whitehouse.gov 11/26/2003 ---
Colby, from Centralia MO writes:
Do you feel that Pagan faith based groups should be given the same considerations as any other group that seeks aid?
Jim Towey
I haven't run into a pagan faith-based group yet, much less a pagan group that cares for the poor! Once you make it clear to any applicant that public money must go to public purposes and can't be used to promote ideology, the fringe groups lose interest. Helping the poor is tough work and only those with loving hearts seem drawn to it.
Colby, from Centralia MO writes:
Do you feel that Pagan faith based groups should be given the same considerations as any other group that seeks aid?
Jim Towey
I haven't run into a pagan faith-based group yet, much less a pagan group that cares for the poor! Once you make it clear to any applicant that public money must go to public purposes and can't be used to promote ideology, the fringe groups lose interest. Helping the poor is tough work and only those with loving hearts seem drawn to it.
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The Pagan Community needs to make the administration aware that not only do members of minority faiths have "loving hearts" But that we in fact DON'T EVER try to promote ideology like the Christian faiths who base their whole religions on 'saving' others. We also need to snow under this man's office with introductions of the varied and numerous Pagan faith-based groups that of course "care for the poor."
PUC encourages all Pagans to send Mr.Towey Yule cards this Yuletide season, along with PUC. Together we shall try to educate this man who is suppose to be a religious expert for the current administration, about the various Faiths who have followers in Lady Liberty's land!!!
Address your cards, letters, telephone calls, and faxes to him at:
Jim Towey, Director
The White House
Washington, DC 20502
(202) 456-6708 (phone)
(202) 456-7019 (fax)
www.fbci.gov
Contac PUC at Ginger@PaganUnityCampaign.org
