AOL News has a new home! The Huffington Post.
Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Hot on HuffPost:
Controversial Book On Obama Appears To Have Lifted Key Quote
Walker Recall Effort Struggles To Gain Momentum
faith based programs
Jogging With Jesus: Exercise Gets a Boost From the Man Upstairs
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Oct. 7) -- Loving the lord can help some of America's least active citizens get their sweat on, according to a promising new study on the link between prayer and physical activity. A UCLA study of African-American women over the age of 60, who get the least activity of any race-sex demographic, concluded that adding Scripture reading and and prayer to workout programs spurred the women to move an extra three miles a week. More than 95 percent of African-Americans pray on a daily basis, so the strategy makes sense. "The rationale for this study is our belief that health promotion efforts ...
Opinion: Faith-Based Program Falls Short
By Red Room Author - AOL News(March 11) -- Why does President Barack Obama support a policy that lets a Baptist homeless shelter take tax dollars and then refuse to hire Jews, Hindus or nonbelievers to change the sheets or ladle out the morning oatmeal? Particularly when it violates a clear campaign promise. In 2008, candidate Obama told an audience in Zanesville, Ohio, that he would make major changes in the way religious entities were funded. Under President George W. Bush's "faith-based" program, government grants and contracts went to religious groups to provide social services, even when those groups insisted on ...
Non-Believers Losing Faith in Obama: More God Talk Than Bush -- and Same Old Faith-Based Policies
By David Gibson - Politics DailyThe Secular Coalition for America moved into spanking new K Street offices this week and the swagger – and implicit political heft – that such an address confers on the lone Washington lobby representing America's proudly godless couldn't come at a better time. Back on Election Day, Barack Obama was a favorite of the religiously unaffiliated, winning an overwhelming 75 percent of a bloc that is growing fast – from nine percent of the electorate in 2000 to 12 percent in 2008 – and one that figures to be crucial to Obama's chances in 2012, especially as his ...
Obama Overturns Stem-Cell Ban: Is it War on Religion?
By David Knowles - Politics DailyVia Bloomberg:President Barack Obama will reverse the U.S. government's ban on funding stem-cell research today and pledge to "use sound, scientific practice and evidence, instead of dogma" to guide federal policy, an adviser said. By repeatedly emphasizing the importance of sound science to order U.S. policy priorities, President Obama has marked a stark dividing line between his administration and the previous one. His decision to reverse George W. Bush's restrictions on stem cell research is but the latest action taken to disengage religious "dogma" from government decision making. At the ...
Follow Politics Daily
POPULAR
- Nancy Pelosi Confirms House May Skip Up or Down Vote on Senate Health Bill
- Debrahlee Lorenzana: A Double Take on Those Double D's
- Campbell Brown Quits CNN With Shockingly Frank Farewell
- Palin Earnings Estimated at $12 Million
- The Five Most Racist Obama Cartoons?
- Soraya M., Stoned to Death for Being an "Inconvenient Wife''
- Jimmy Carter Leaves Church Over Treatment of Women
- No posts are available.
News From Our Partners
- Dragon arrives at space station in historic 1st
- Picking new leader, Egyptians search for superman
- Egyptians vote in first free presidential vote
- Moon chips from Vegas casino mogul sent to NASA
- Egyptians vote to rid nation of autocratic rule
- More Stories »
- 'Masters of the Universe' Sure Have Fragile Egos
- Romney: My Mistakes 'Haunt Me'
- Newt Lauds Romney: He's Like Eisenhower
- Irked Senate Panel Votes 30-0 to Cut Pakistan Aid
- GSA Bash Organizer Steps Down
- More Stories »
- Know Your Enemy
- Obama’s Challenge in Egypt
- The Edwards Waiting Game
- Are Doctors Doing Too Much?
- The Pagan Cult of Reagan
- More Stories »
- Ambition Counteracting Ambition
- Robert Blagojevich Speaks Out
- In Iowa, Obama Calls Romney's Words 'A Cow Pie of Distortion'
- In Iowa, Obama Calls On Congress to Act on Clean Energy Tax Credits
- Romney Has Interesting Morning in Inner-City Philly
- More Stories »
Top News
More News
More on Aol
Local News
More Blog/Sites
Sites and Services
HuffPost Politics