Are “Faith Based Initiatives” An Attempt to Buy Black Votes?
Rev. Eugene Rivers, a black urban pastor and close friend of OFCBI director John DiIulio, elevated Dilulio’s attack on evangelical Christians last week, saying, “The white fundamentalists thought the faith-based office would finance their sectarian programs, which primarily serve upper middle class suburbanites, and they are infuriated because John DiIulio wants resources to go to people who are poor, black and brown.” TCN Comment: The White Fundamentalist View Actually none of the white fundamentalists that I know have ever had any plans to apply for federal funds. They all know that what the feds fund, they run and having no plans to give their ministries to the government have not even considered W’s money as an option. For the most part fundamentalists see their primary ministry as preaching the gospel, the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ as the only means of atonement for fallen man. Feeding the poor and drug rehab programs are seen by fundamentalists as means to ga
