Tuesday, November 24, 2009

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God and Country by Dan Gilgoff

Obama Transition Team in Touch with Family Research Council

January 02, 2009 12:09 PM ET | Dan Gilgoff | Permanent Link | Print

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Faith Not Phateth

Liberals were hoping to repeal that "freedom of religion" thing. It's not freedom FROM religion. Go worship a rock, if you want. But those religious do more good than the local atheist group by a million miles.

A Prayer

Dear Lord, save us from your followers.

It's the Constitution, Stupid

Separate Church and State. Repeat until done.

Don't we "get it" yet?

The far-right religious people do not really want to be involved with Obama at all. The want to hang out on the ruffled fringe and criticize everything he says and does with "yes, but,"

If Perkins or Dobson or the Southern Baptists actually touch Obama they will be accused by the likes of Palin as "pals" of abortion-mongers and terrorists.

Bet on it. The church-business (yes church BUSINESS) crowd wants to stand apart and gripe. They plan to do it for four years.

They may even whine about not being invited to a table even as they are being invited.

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Dan Gilgoff covers religion for U.S. News & World Report. He is the author of The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America are Winning the Culture War, and is a former politics editor at beliefnet. E-mail Dan at godandcountry@usnews.com.

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