Bush's Evangelical Marriage Brokers Win Legal Victory

[babylonsister]

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2007/3/26/17455/3834

Bush's Evangelical Marriage Brokers Win Legal Victory
By Bill Berkowitz


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Government money boosts Biblical view of marriage

"The federal funding of the Northwest Marriage Institute glaringly indicates just how recklessly the Bush administration has been willing to use taxpayer dollars," Glenn C. Gerard recently wrote in a story posted at Counterbias titled "Lawsuit Intends to Force Bush Administration to Recognize Constitution."

Gerard, who has taught history, religion, and ethics at various colleges in the Southwest, is a contributing author to the forthcoming book "Americans at War," and writes on current politics for OrbStandard, pointed out that the Northwest Marriage Institute "doesn't even attempt to disguise itself as offering marital counseling and education programs that are apart from its religious objectives. To the contrary, they're one and the same."

"According to the institute, a majority of the residents of Washington do not attend church; therefore, 'the great need was to take biblical marriage education and biblical counseling to the communities.'"

"The institute is attempting to do this in part by offering something called 'temperament therapy,' which consists of 'discovering the way God made you.' This reportedly helps couples improve their marriage. The organization offers pre-marital and marriage-counseling programs that contain sessions entitled, 'God's Plan for a Healthy Marriage.'"

"In the programs, couples 'discover tools, embedded in God's Word, that can be used in real life to resolve real life problems.' This may or may not be true. But what is most certainly true is that American taxpayers shouldn't be paying for it."

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[MADem]

1. Good grief. I'm just....well...no longer surprised. He steals from the treasury

to give money to crazed cronies, and he wipes his ass on the Constitution.

We're in the jaws of a dictatorial shark.

[Tyler Durden]

2. I'm in serious trouble. This didn't even shock me.

I'm getting pretty damned jaded.

[DCKit]

3. 'discovering the way God made you.'??

But what if God made you Gay?

[Solly Mack]

4. and I'm supposed to be tolerant of people like this?

I don't think so