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January 13, 2005, 03:35 AM
The Bush Theocracy: Righteous homophobe Claude Allen brings his agenda to the White House (http://www.laweekly.com/ink/05/08/news-ireland2.php)
President Bush’s appointment of his new chief domestic-policy adviser, Claude Allen — a notorious homophobe, a ferocious enemy of abortion and an opponent of safe-sex education who for years has been one of the AIDS community’s principal enemies — is a huge victory for the social reactionaries of the Christian right.
Doug Ireland describes Allen as the driving force behind opposition to science based AIDS programs and sex ed.
The appointment of Allen as domestic-policy czar is further evidence of the aggressive new push for the Christian right’s social agenda in Bush’s second term. In the first term, $1.7 billion was handed out in patronage disguised as "faith-based initiatives." Now, the Washington Post reported on January 4, the White House is launching a major new offensive (with Allen, in his new post, in charge) to persuade states to use an additional $50 billion in federal moneys to subsidize "faith-based" programs — money that has been shorn of church-state separation restrictions by a Bush executive order, without the approval of Congress. This amounts to a religious tax on the American people. Half a dozen Democratic governors have already joined in capitulating to the religious right’s agenda by appointing coordinators of "faith-based" services.
Added: Report on Allen's judicial nomination (http://www.independentjudiciary.com/nominees/nominee.cfm?NomineeID=68)
Max Blumenthal]s blog (http://maxblumenthal.blogspot.com/2005/01/who-is-claude-allen-anyway-claude.html)
President Bush’s appointment of his new chief domestic-policy adviser, Claude Allen — a notorious homophobe, a ferocious enemy of abortion and an opponent of safe-sex education who for years has been one of the AIDS community’s principal enemies — is a huge victory for the social reactionaries of the Christian right.
Doug Ireland describes Allen as the driving force behind opposition to science based AIDS programs and sex ed.
The appointment of Allen as domestic-policy czar is further evidence of the aggressive new push for the Christian right’s social agenda in Bush’s second term. In the first term, $1.7 billion was handed out in patronage disguised as "faith-based initiatives." Now, the Washington Post reported on January 4, the White House is launching a major new offensive (with Allen, in his new post, in charge) to persuade states to use an additional $50 billion in federal moneys to subsidize "faith-based" programs — money that has been shorn of church-state separation restrictions by a Bush executive order, without the approval of Congress. This amounts to a religious tax on the American people. Half a dozen Democratic governors have already joined in capitulating to the religious right’s agenda by appointing coordinators of "faith-based" services.
Added: Report on Allen's judicial nomination (http://www.independentjudiciary.com/nominees/nominee.cfm?NomineeID=68)
Max Blumenthal]s blog (http://maxblumenthal.blogspot.com/2005/01/who-is-claude-allen-anyway-claude.html)