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You have a huge double standard here. Every politician moves to the center after the primary. They all do it and they all have to do it in our two party system.
And I still think you're wrong on hiring/firing decisions for faith-based groups. Every "faith based group" HAS to do some hiring based on religion or they couldn't hire the appropriate faith leader. If you don't want federal money going to groups that discriminate based on faith at all, then you don't want money going to faith based groups at all.
Why not just admit that -- that you don't think there should be federal money at all for faith based groups? Because there is NO means by which federal money can go to a faith based groups if your standard is that they can't take faith into account in hiring at all.
And why would you find Obama's position on this surprising or a shift? His community work was largely based in relationships with faith communities and institutions.
Furthermore, this line of argument reminds me of the Bush I and Bush II gag rule policies wherein birth control clinics couldn't get money if they even referred women to birth control clinics even if the money was kept completely separate. I don't like that at all.
