Obama to expand faith-based initiative

I'm not even sure what to say.

UPDATE: Okay, I wanted to think about this before responding, and now I've thought about it. Expanding the faith-based initiative at first glance gives me the willies. When I think faith-based initiative, I think "government funding the religious right." Will expanding the initiative expand funding to the religious right? Will it continue to permit government-funded groups to discriminate against gays (we're not in the '64 civil rights act)? Will it crack down on current abuses in the program, such as groups that proselytize? Is there an imbalance in funding between religious right and religious left groups, and if so, will this expanded program guarantee that the left is at the very least equally funded in the future, if not given the lion's share? Will there be a top to bottom review of the current program to fix any and all pro-right-wing biases that Bush has most certainly built into it?

I'm a Christian. I'm not afraid of religion. I am however afraid of many of its adherents. They don't tend to like me. They don't tend to like Democrats. And on a basic, selfish level, I don't want to see my tax dollars funding people who don't like me, and who go out of their way to hurt me. I'm also squeamish about any government involvement in religion - funding religion, in essence. That's creepy. This entire program is creepy. What wouldn't be creepy? Funding small politically-benign religious groups in the inner city to do outreach to at-risk kids. Not to convert them to Christianity or Islam, but to help get them off the street, midnight basketball, whatever. That is an idea that intrigues me. But to date this program has come across as little more than a government funded teat for the religious right.