Group that wants to constitutionally outlaw homosexuality received $3M from Feds.

[Bluebear]

HHS grants accounted for half the group's revenue in 2007

Between 2004 and 2009 the politically influential Christian organization Iowa Family Policy Center (IFPC) received more than $3 million in federal grants through two subsidiaries of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

In 2004 and 2005 the IFPC received a total of $850,000 from the Administration for Children and Families’ Compassion Capital Fund. From 2006 to 2009 they received $2.2 million through the U.S. Healthy Marriage Demonstration Fund, which is doled out in yearly increments of $550,000 and will be awarded to IFPC through 2011.

The Iowa Family Policy Center’s 2007 tax return claims $558,337 of their $1.1 million revenue came from federal grants. Tom Campbell, a representative at the Administration of Children and Families (ACF), the awarding agency within the HHS, said this money must be passed from the IFPC to a third-party to execute the Healthy Marriage Demonstration — the name under which the grants were awarded to IFPC — as part of the government’s Healthy Marriage Program...

The group has also created its share of controversy, most recently garnering headlines when it publicly claimed that homosexual activity was “more dangerous for individuals who engage in it than is smoking,” and thus, needed to be banned via constitutional amendment...

Bryan English, the director of communications for the IFPC, said recently in a phone interview regarding the one-year anniversary of same-sex marriage in Iowa, “This isn’t a civil rights issue. is a choice in behavior and as a Christian organization we don’t believe this is a right, it is a sin against Jesus Christ.”

http://iowaindependent.com/32199/iowa-family-policy-center-received-3-million-in-federal-fund

[MadMaddie]

1. This is why religion should not be mixed with the government

Let me get this clear...these groups received money from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services but real organizations that needed the money were denied?

[WVRICK13]

9. FBOs And Bush

If you knew how much of your tax dollars went for this kind of shit you would be freaked out.

[Bluebear]

12. :nodding:

[DJ13]

2. So this is what that "Faith Based" program has accomplished

This is why many still think it violates the separation clause.

[47of74]

3. I'd ask that horse's ass English

If he could point to where Jesus ever said ANYTHING about homosexuality.

[Cirque du So-What]

4. I don't buy the assertion

that it's impossible to ascertain whether any impropriety occurred. What a goddamned disgrace that public funds are spent on such hateful activities!

[chollybocker]

5. All these 'faith-based funding' spigots need to be turned off.

Total fundie bullsh*t, total fiscal failure.

Audit their asses off.

[LiberalFighter]

6. They should only legislate their own churches. Not anyone else.

[Ian David]

7. Another reason to be glad McCain lost. n/t

[Bluebear]

8. The funding of this group continues today.

[Ian David]

10. We have to do something about that. n/t

[katandmoon]

11. Too disgusting for words.

[Bluebear]

13. 1 more kick

[Dr Morbius]

14. WTF?

"The group has also created its share of controversy, most recently garnering headlines when it publicly claimed that homosexual activity was “more dangerous for individuals who engage in it than is smoking,” and thus, needed to be banned via constitutional amendment..."

Is it me, or is this insane?

Never mind. It's freaking nutty. I wonder what logic, or rather, what perversion of logic underlay this assertion.

[Bluebear]

15. It's nutty, and you and I are funding this nuttiness!

[Mari333]

16. k

[walldude]

17. K&R WTF is the "Healthy Marriage Demonstration Fund"

And why are they giving half a million dollars to these people?

This amounts to support for anti-gay legislation.

It's fucking bullshit.

I'm going to see what this HMDF thing is.