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Shit that scares the hell outa me (Bush and religon)

Take the life issue. This issue requires a president and an administration leading
our nation to understand the importance of life. This whole faith-based initiative
really ties into a larger cultural issue that we're working on. It begins to affect the
life issue, as well as the human dignity issue, because when you're talking about
welcoming people of faith to help people who are disadvantaged and are unable
to defend themselves, the logical step is also those babies.

-- George W. Bush, unaware that a press microphone was on, telling Roman Catholic faith-based subsidy supporters that they are "vital allies" because they won't "be eroded by political correctness or whatever," and assuring them that his scheme to give tax money to religious groups will help them promote opposition to abortion, at the White House on January 31, 2001, quoted from Margaret Sykes, "Bush Caught on Tape -- Again: Says he'll use tax dollars to help religious groups oppose abortion," About Pro-Choice Views, February 1, 2001


We've got a cultural issue in America. We've got to change the whole way the issue is looked at. That's the mission. Some in the political process don't have enough patience for that, and I probably don't either.

-- George W. Bush, unaware that a press microphone was on, while telling Roman Catholic faith-based subsidy supporters that his scheme to give tax money to religious groups will help them promote opposition to abortion, at the White House on January 31, 2001, quoted from Margaret Sykes, "Bush Caught on Tape -- Again: Says he'll use tax dollars to help religious groups oppose abortion," About Pro-Choice Views, February 1, 2001


The days of discriminating against religious institutions simply because they are religious must come to an end.

-- George W. Bush, willfully misrepresenting, once again, the whole point of state-church separation, at the annual National Prayer Breakfast, for which organizers refused to release a full list of attendees, February 1, 2001, quoted from Conrad Goeringer, "Bush Promotes Faith at Prayer Breakfast: Bipartisan Support for New White House Office," AANEWS 881, February 2, 2001, from American Atheists


Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.

-- George W. Bush, with a slap in the fact to the ten percent of Americans who are not religious, at the annual National Prayer Breakfast, for which organizers refused to release a full list of attendees, February 1, 2001, quoted from Conrad Goeringer, "Bush Promotes Faith at Prayer Breakfast: Bipartisan Support for New White House Office," AANEWS 881, February 2, 2001, from American Atheists


We do not prescribe any prayer; we welcome all prayer.

-- George W. Bush, promoting religion over nonreligion at the annual National Prayer Breakfast, for which organizers refused to release a full list of attendees, February 1, 2001, quoted from Conrad Goeringer, "Bush Promotes Faith at Prayer Breakfast: Bipartisan Support for New White House Office," AANEWS 881, February 2, 2001, from American Atheists


It has sustained me in moments of success and in moments of disappointment. Without it, I'd be a different person. And without it, I doubt I'd be here today.

-- George W. Bush, promoting the Christian faith at the annual National Prayer Breakfast, for which organizers refused to release a full list of attendees, February 1, 2001, quoted from Conrad Goeringer, "Bush Promotes Faith at Prayer Breakfast: Bipartisan Support for New White House Office," AANEWS 881, February 2, 2001, from American Atheists


Our plan will not favor religious institutions over nonreligious institutions. As president, I'm interested in what is constitutional and I'm interested in what works.

-- George W. Bush, promoting his scheme to funnel tax dollars into religoius "charities" which will not be held accountable for discriminating against nonreligious and other-religious workers, and the validity of which religious groups are worthy of being funded will be decided by the government (Bush has already stated that the Nation of Islam will not qualify), at the annual National Prayer Breakfast, for which organizers refused to release a full list of attendees, February 1, 2001, quoted from Conrad Goeringer, "Bush Promotes Faith at Prayer Breakfast: Bipartisan Support for New White House Office," AANEWS 881, February 2, 2001, from American Atheists


We have set out to promote the work of community and faith-based charities. Government cannot be replaced by charities, but it can welcome them as partners instead of resenting them as rivals.

-- George W. Bush, softening the criticism against his scheme to funnel tax money into reigious "outreach" organizations (read: evangelistic efforts), at the annual National Prayer Breakfast, for which organizers refused to release a full list of attendees, February 1, 2001, quoted from Conrad Goeringer, "Bush Promotes Faith at Prayer Breakfast: Bipartisan Support for New White House Office," AANEWS 881, February 2, 2001, from American Atheists


It is one of the great goals of my administration to invigorate the spirit of involvement and citizenship. We will encourage faith-based and community programs without changing their mission.

-- George W. Bush, establishing a White House office dedicated to encouraging faith-based organizations to seek federal funds to help solve social problems like drug addiction and homelessness, while allowing organized religion to continue to exploit its new captive audience through evangelistic efforts, and potentially allowing state-funded religious groups to discriminate both against those who seek help and those who seek emplyment, quoted from Steve Holland, "Bush Sets Up Faith-Based Office at White House," Reuters, January 29, 2001


And this is my solemn pledge: I will work to build a single nation of justice and opportunity. I know this is in our reach because we are guided by a power larger than ourselves who creates us equal in His image.

-- George W. Bush, showing gross insensitivity to the constitutional principle of government neutrality on religion, as well as showing that he's oblivious both to the diversity in the nation he now leads and to the very concept of unity, in his Inauguration Address, January 20, 2001


I ask Americans to bow our heads in humility before our Heavenly Father, a Godwho calls us not to judge our neighbors, but to love them, to ask His guidance upon our nation and its leaders in every level of government.

-- George W. Bush, National Day of Prayer Proclamation, January 20, 2001, one of his first acts as United States President, quoted from "President Bush Announces Religious Agenda on Inauguration Day: Bush Presents Himself as 'Determined Foe of Church-state Separation,' Says Americans United," January 20, 2001


We will keep a commitment to pluralism [and] not discriminate for or against Methodist or Mormons or Muslims or good people with no faith at all.

-- George W. Bush, promising equal opportunity to all religious groups for receiving tax money, at a rally in Indianapolis, Indiana, July 22, 1999, quoted from Americans United press release titled, "President Bush And 'Faith-Based' Initiatives: AU Report And Answers to Frequently Asked Questions"


I don't see how we can allow public dollars to fund programs where spite and hate is the core of the message. Louis Farrakhan preaches hate.

-- George W. Bush, reneging on the above promise, on being asked by a reporter if the Nation of Islam would be eligible for federal money, but failing to distinguish between the "hate" that he says Farrakhan preaches and the hate (against atheists and other non-Christians) that many Christian churches preach, while speaking with reporters on March 1, 2000, as quoted in the Austin American-Statesman, March 2, 2000, p. A-9, quoted from Americans United press release of January 29, 2001, titled, "President Bush And 'Faith-Based' Initiatives: AU Report And Answers to Frequently Asked Questions"

Religious freedom and tolerance is a protected right. I am committed to the First Amendment principles of religious freedom, tolerance, and diversity. Whether Mormon, Methodist, Jewish, or Muslim, Americans should be able to participate in their constitutional free exercise of religion.
I do not think witchcraft is a religion, and I do not think it is in any way appropriate for the U.S. military to promote it.

-- George W. Bush, October 15, 2000, Web, White & Blue 2000, Rolling Cyber Debate question: "With religious diversity increasing, what are your thoughts on the protection of religious freedom and the separation of church and state? Should religions like Wicca be banned from recognition by the military, as some legislators suggest?" Bush honors diversity within certain bounds, saying nothing of one's Constitutional right to freedom from religion (he's against it: see below) and speaking out once again against Americans' right to practice the Wiccan religion with the same freedoms enjoyed by those who practice Bush's own religion of Evangelical Christianity. Notice how Bush does away with the Wiccan's right to religious liberty by redefining Wicca as not a religion and further denigrating it with the term witchcraft. In the same way, atheism, that is, the freedom from government-imposed or government-sponsored religious intrusion, being not itself a bona fide religion, is twisted to become a viewpoint or practice or right that is not covered under the First Amendment guarantee of religious Liberty. (To be fair and honest, Bush's opponent, Al Gore, slyly answered every other element of the same question, but silently passed over the part about Wicca.)


I don't think that witchcraft is a religion. I wish the military would rethink this decision.

-- George W. Bush, earlier remark to ABCNEWS, June, 1999, regarding Ft. Hood's decision to allow Wiccan rituals just as all military bases allow rituals of the Christian faith (in a letter to Cliff Walker, the Bush Campaign HQ backpedaled, calling this Bush's personal opinion; later it becomes part of his campaign)


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