"Despite your little semantic two-step on "public policy," I suspect your lack of concern about Obama is based on the knowledge that a Democrat would probably be faking it anyway--like pretty much every other value and principle they claim to hold--so you wouldn't really have to worry about them maybe dropping a theocracy on your ass."

I don't know if it's all show:

"Welfare Reform Act and Ashcroft Amendment (1996)
The 1996 Welfare Reform Act, signed by President Clinton, enabled some houses of worship to receive tax dollars for delivery of social services, due to an amendment sponsored by then Senator, now Attorney General, John Ashcroft. Prior to that year, government funds could go to religious groups for social services, but the institutions were required to have separate, secular nonprofit entities to administer the programs. With the "charitable choice" provision of the 1996 act, religious charities were permitted to compete for government welfare dollars."
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"But it's not just Republicans who've thought that taxpayers' money should be given to religious organizations to run social welfare programs. In fact, during his campaign for the presidency, then Vice President Al Gore proposed doing something very similar."
http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/churchandstate2.html