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26 Year Old to Head Obama's Faith Office
ABC News ^ | January 30, 2009 10:38 AM | Teddy Davis

Posted on 01/30/2009 11:18:08 AM PST by lewisglad

Josh Dubois, the 26 year-old who ran religious outreach for Barack Obama's 2008 campaign, has been tapped by the new president to head the White House Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, a White House aide tells ABC News.

Dubois, who previously worked as an associate pastor for a small Pentecostal church in Massachusetts, was drawn to Obama in 2004 when he heard the future president tell the Democratic National Convention that, "We worship an awesome God in the Blue States."

After hearing that line, DuBois tried to work on Obama's US Senate campaign but was rejected. Following Obama's election to the U.S. Senate from Illinois, DuBois kept pushing for a job and got hired as a Senate aide.

Part of his job was focused on building relationships with religious leaders, especially evangelical Christians who were dissatisfied with the GOP's approach to economic justice, the use of force, and environmental protection.

The progressive religious community, which has worked closely with DuBois, learned about the pick a few days ago. Initially, the president's staff was declining to comment but the White House is now confirming the selection.

One key question DuBois will have to help Obama address is whether the new administration should rescind a legal memorandum from the Bush administration which allows religious organizations that receive public funds to hire only those who share their faith.

During his presidential run, Obama said that those receiving government funds should not proselytize the people they help nor should they discriminate in hiring practices on the basis of religion.

Where there are state or local laws prohibiting hiring decisions from being made on the basis of sexual orientation, Obama has said he would support those laws being applied to the federally funded portion of the faith-based programs.

DuBois, whose stepfather is a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, has lived in several places including Maine, where he was born, Massachusetts, where he spent his first few years, Tennessee, which he considers his home, and Ohio, where he attended high school.

He earned his bachelor's degree from Boston University and his master's degree from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He was enrolled in law school at Georgetown University's Law Center when he left to work for Obama in his Senate office.

As detailed in a Boston Globe profile of DuBois which ran this past summer, his social and religious activism was sparked as a 17-year old freshman at BU when a New York jury acquitted four police officers whose 41 bullets had killed an unarmed immigrant named Amadou Diallo.

DuBois wrote "NO MORE" on a placard and stood in front of a memorial to Martin Luther King, Jr., in Massachusetts, for 41 hours to draw attention to the 41 shots which were fired.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: agenda; bho44; dncfalseprophets; dubois; faithbased; falseprophets; joshdubois; obamaandgod; religiousleft
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To: Edizzl79

I don’t understand it either.
I think maybe this guy is more in love with Obama’s skin color than his religious beliefs.


21 posted on 01/30/2009 11:28:49 AM PST by texaschick
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To: Edizzl79

Matthew 7:20
So you’ll recognize them by their fruit.


22 posted on 01/30/2009 11:29:12 AM PST by Taxbilly
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To: lewisglad
Obama has already failed the test of reaching out to Christians. He used them to get elected. He is THE MOST PRO-ABORTION POTUS in the history of the U.S. His policies will lead to the mass slaughter of tens of millions of the unborn. Those that assisted him, like Rick Warren should be held responsible.
23 posted on 01/30/2009 11:30:36 AM PST by utahson
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To: lewisglad

Does he cling to his religion?


24 posted on 01/30/2009 11:31:12 AM PST by Redgirl (Denial Anger Bargaining Depression Acceptance)
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To: Boiling Pots
True Conservatives knew Bush’s “Faith initiative” is a bad idea. Now look who gets to run it.

Exactly.

When Bush installed the position in the WH conservatives applauded with not even considering that a future Democratic president would get to install his own guy in the job.

25 posted on 01/30/2009 11:31:22 AM PST by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at I00 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: lewisglad
My God...would the last person with American Values leaving the White House please grab the flag?

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26 posted on 01/30/2009 11:32:07 AM PST by IrishPennant (Patriotism is strongest when accompanied by bad politics, loyal FRiends and great whiskey)
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To: bcsco

Socialism is EASILY refuted as unChristian.

Just step through the “horizontal” commandments, for one.

And here’s the real kicker:
2 Corinthians 9:7
7 You should each give what you have decided in your heart to give. You shouldn’t give if you don’t want to. You shouldn’t give because you are forced to. God loves a cheerful giver.

Nothing could say “socialism isn’t Godly” than this one passage.


27 posted on 01/30/2009 11:32:23 AM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: lewisglad
This guy left the ministry to follow Barry....pretty much tells you where his faith lies.
28 posted on 01/30/2009 11:33:01 AM PST by svcw (Great selection of gift baskets: http://baskettastic.com/)
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To: Boiling Pots

It was a terrible idea. Like most “initiatives.” We all knew that once the leadership changed it would be run by a different crowd, who would just turn it into another stop on the (secular) socialist gravy train.


29 posted on 01/30/2009 11:36:29 AM PST by americanophile
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To: villagerjoel
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...”

Well, perhaps if Conservatives would have stood-up against Bush's creation of the Faith Based White House Office, the job would have never been created and Obama would not have to fill that job.

30 posted on 01/30/2009 11:38:12 AM PST by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at I00 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: lewisglad

ACORN.


31 posted on 01/30/2009 11:41:49 AM PST by popdonnelly (The problem with Obama is that he believes his own hype.)
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To: lewisglad

To the victors belong the spoils.


32 posted on 01/30/2009 11:44:53 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: lewisglad
I can't get any real information on Josh Dubois. All the sites have been denied because of web filtering by my company.
33 posted on 01/30/2009 11:51:09 AM PST by jonrick46
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To: Edizzl79

Money and power.


34 posted on 01/30/2009 11:52:31 AM PST by odin2008 (EVIL TRUMPHS WHEN GOOD MEN DO NOTHING)
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To: lewisglad

Is that Josh Hussein DuBois?


35 posted on 01/30/2009 11:57:37 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

Here are some links, haven’t checked any out yet:

http://www.opposingviews.com/articles/news-obama-to-appoint-pastor-josh-dubois-to-faith-based-post

http://www.faithinpubliclife.org/content/news/2007/01/prodigal_party_what_party_of_s.html

http://www.blackchristiannews.com/news/2008/09/josh-dubois-religious-affairs-director-f.html

http://news.google.com/news?q=Josh+Dubois&rls=com.microsoft:*&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&sa=X&oi=news_result&resnum=4&ct=title

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/faithactionchangehq

http://streetprophets.com/tag/Josh%20DuBois


36 posted on 01/30/2009 12:00:46 PM PST by little jeremiah (Leave illusion, come to the truth. Leave the darkness, come to the light.)
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To: little jeremiah

Liberal socialist “Christian”.


37 posted on 01/30/2009 12:10:24 PM PST by little jeremiah (Leave illusion, come to the truth. Leave the darkness, come to the light.)
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To: lewisglad

He is now going to get paid.


38 posted on 01/30/2009 12:16:54 PM PST by FreeAtlanta (Join the Constitution Party)
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To: WayneS

“they violate the ‘constitutional mandate’ on separation of church and state.”

I am unfamiliar with the mandate of which you speak.


39 posted on 01/30/2009 12:39:20 PM PST by Tublecane
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To: lewisglad

Hmmm... So I guess Obama’s “Operation Joshua Generation” WASN’T about stealing an idea from Christians, and didn’t have ANYTHING to do with the Biblical Joshua either! Now we know that this aspect of the campaign was most likely named after the person who RAN it...

Typical liberal idea that a religious outreach program would be named after the MAN running it!


40 posted on 01/30/2009 12:40:40 PM PST by LibertyRocks ( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ Pro-Palin & NObama Gear : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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