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.
I don’t understand it either.
I think maybe this guy is more in love with Obama’s skin color than his religious beliefs.
Matthew 7:20
So you’ll recognize them by their fruit.
Does he cling to his religion?
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.
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.
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.
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.
ACORN.
To the victors belong the spoils.
Money and power.
Is that Josh Hussein DuBois?
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://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/faithactionchangehq
http://streetprophets.com/tag/Josh%20DuBois
Liberal socialist “Christian”.
He is now going to get paid.
“they violate the ‘constitutional mandate’ on separation of church and state.”
I am unfamiliar with the mandate of which you speak.
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!
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