Family Research Council president Tony Perkins is troubled by President Obama’s new My Brother’s Keeper Initiative, which encourages communities to partner “with local businesses and foundations to connect” boys and young men of color “to mentoring, support networks, and skills they need to find a good job or go to college and work their way up into the middle class.”
Perkins fears that the program is actually all about growing the size of government and, of course, opposes it simply because President Obama is involved. “The President’s liberal agenda of abortion, promiscuity, and same-sex marriage hasn’t fixed the problems, it’s exacerbated them,” he said.
Fortunately for President Obama, there is one job where his approval ratings are soaring: fatherhood. Hello, I’m Tony Perkins with the Family Research Council in Washington. Like almost half of all kids today, having a father at home was a luxury Barack Obama didn’t enjoy. And last week, he launched a new program to spare other kids the same issues. To fight the crime and poverty that comes with broken families, the President kicked off a program called My Brother’s Keeper to help minority boys. And while it’s fine for the government to raise awareness about the problem — it’s not fine, or even possible, for the government to be the solution. What these kids need isn’t Washington’s touch, but a family’s. Until now, the President’s liberal agenda of abortion, promiscuity, and same-sex marriage hasn’t fixed the problems, it’s exacerbated them. Focusing on minority kids could have a huge impact on American society — if the President realizes that marriage, life, and faith are essential ingredients.
