I think the court will determine that the Faith-Based Initiative that the White House has instituted in the last five years is constitutional, in the context of allowing for broad-based programs to include religious providers.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To restore the American experiment in democratic self-government, religious believers need to redouble their civic efforts. For without our active participation in politics, the government will continue to trample on our rights. The Constitution does not prevent people of faith from being active in politics.
Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.
Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.
There's no religious test under the constitution. That's what it says. Period.
The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.
The Church's role should be separated from the state's role.
The White House has a secular, humanistic agenda.
It's possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972, the last campaign before Roe v. Wade and the rise of Jimmy Carter brought evangelicalism into the political mainstream. That's because faith remains a complicated issue for Obama, who is still wrongly thought to be a Muslim in some quarters.
The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.
It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.