President Obama has tabbed a 26-year old Pentecostal minister to run his faith-based programs, a White House aide announced Thursday.

Joshua DuBois worked for Obama during his time in the Senate and the president considers him a close adviser to the president. Prior to getting involved with Obama, DuBois was educated at Princeton and is an associate minister at a Pentecostal church in Massachusetts.

For those of you not familiar with Pentecostalism, here are some tidbits from your neighborhood Wikipedia:

• Pentecostals are characterized by their practice of speaking in other tongues. A Pentecostal believer in an ecstatic religious experience may vocalize fluent unintelligible utterances (glossolalia) or articulate an alleged natural language previously unknown to the speaker (xenoglossy).
• Pentecostals generally adhere to the doctrine of biblical inerrancy, believing that the Bible has definitive authority in matters of faith, and adopt a literalist approach in its interpretation.
• The gift of tongues may be exercised anywhere, but many denominations believe that it must only be exercised with a person who has the gift of “interpretation of tongues” present whether that be another person or the one who gives the tongue. The interpreter may interpret the tongue into the language of the gathered Christians so that they can understand the message.

They sure seem like a fine group, one that should fit right in with an extremely liberal president and Congress. Oh, they’re also against gay right, same-sex marriage and abortion rights. Perfect for Obama’s camp.

According to the Washington Post, President Obama is planning on expanding the role of faith-based programs in his administration.

Obama aides have said the president’s effort will expand the faith-based office at the White House. President George W. Bush’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives made a priority of placing faith offices within federal agencies and was criticized by some former high-ranking staff members for becoming politicized.

While many on the left fully expected the new president to shut down the office of faith-based initiatives, instead he chose to choose a very conservative Christian to head it up and expand the office.

That Obama sure is winning friends in Washington, isn’t he?

Back in July, Obama said in a campaign speech that he wouldn’t allow the discrimination that is currently legally allowed in this office to continue, but has been suspiciously mum on the topic since it became his job to have an opinion on it.

We’ll see how this one plays out, but I have a feeling that the liberals in Washington are not going to be real happy about this one. Conservatives will be getting what they want, but they’ll never admit to approving of something Obama does, so it’s really a lose-lose for him.

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