Under the leadership of former Baptist Joint Committee counsel Melissa Rogers, the reform task force of President Obama's Faith-Based Advisory Council has completed its year of work with a report detailing 12 recommendations. Michelle Boorstein offers a glimpse:
The recommendations on church-state issues broadly call for much more clarity on things like: the difference between direct and indirect aid and what are prohibited uses of direct government assistance (the task force urges the government to use the term "explicitly religious" instead of "inherently religious," which has been misunderstood). Another recommendation likely to please conservatives: the majority of the president's task force concluded that religious social service providers do not have to remove religious icons (crucifixes, statues, etc) from the spaces where people come to get help on things like job training or substance abuse.
Read the full report here.
