Written by Don Byrd
In general, for White House officials to meet with all kinds of Americans, promoting all kinds of causes, seems appropriate. I do think Barry Lynn has a point on the larger issue he discusses in a new column on the President’s inaction on the issue of faith-based discrimination in hiring.
What a surprise, then, to read that [White House Faith-Based Office Director Joshua] Dubois does have time to meet with Lamar Vest, president and CEO of the American Bible Society. According to Fox News, Dubois and Vest are “to begin a dialogue on the importance of the Bible in the founding of the country.”
I’d like to save Dubois and Vest some time. The United States was not founded on the Bible. It was not founded on the Koran. It was not founded on the Bhagavad Gita. It was not founded on any holy book.
If you read the Constitution and then the Bible you will see major differences. In the Bible there is no Bill of Rights, no representative democracy, no equal branches of government with “checks and balances” and no “We the people.”
