Pagans need not apply:

Went to the White House website, and saw this: Director of the Faith-Based and Community Initiatives Jim Towey answered your questions in a special Thanksgiving edition of Ask the White House.

So went to that page, where we encountered this exchange:

Colby, from Centralia MO writes:
Do you feel that Pagan faith based groups should be given the same considerations as any other group that seeks aid?

Jim Towey
I haven't run into a pagan faith-based group yet, much less a pagan group that cares for the poor! Once you make it clear to any applicant that public money must go to public purposes and can't be used to promote ideology, the fringe groups lose interest. Helping the poor is tough work and only those with loving hearts seem drawn to it.

posted by Quiddity at 11/27/2003 12:16:00 PM