Just the semantics, please

Apparently Hillary is embracing Faith. Maybe not a particular faith, but at the very least, the idea of Faith. From the Boston Globe, we have a report on her address last night at a lil' get-together for the a fund-raiser for the National TenPoint Leadership Foundation and the Dorchester-based Ella J. Baker House. Both youth outreach programs are directed by the Rev. Eugene F. Rivers 3d, a leader of the clergy-based efforts to stem youth violence in Boston in the 1990s that has become a national model for community-police partnerships. A few interesting quotes:

In a speech at a fund-raising dinner for a Boston-based organization that promotes faith-based solutions to social problems, Clinton said there has been a "false division" between faith-based approaches to social problems and respect for the separation of church of state.

"There is no contradiction between support for faith-based initiatives and upholding our constitutional principles," said Clinton, a New York Democrat who often is mentioned as a possible presidential candidate in 2008.

I hope she really means that, because it's true. However, I have very, very little confidence in either of the Clintons as far as keeping their word or meaning what they're saying. Then Kathryn Jean Lopez of NRO reminded us that there must have been a transcription error, because at one point the article quotes Mrs. Clinton:

Addressing a crowd of more than 500, including many religious leaders, at Boston's Fairmont Copley Plaza, Clinton invoked God more than half a dozen times, at one point declaring, "I've always been a praying person."

KLo points out that someone must've written it down wrong, that the word wasn't "praying" but "preying." My sentiments exactly.