That's fine, forming private groups to represent your interests. There were Executive Branch groups too, that attended the meeting. The Office of Public Engagement, and the Administration on Children, Youth and Families (what do these guys do?), and the assistant attorney general for civil rights at the Justice Department, Mazen Basrawi.
The secular groups were there to emphasize three issues. They want to close any legal loopholes for parents that don't provide medical care to their kids for religious reasons, ensure that there's no proselytizing or religious discrimination in the military, and religious social services (receiving government financial assistance) have to provide services to whomever the government says they have to. I read into the military religious discrimination point that it'll be okay for atheists and other secularists to have a say, but if you're a person of faith, shut the hell up. Regarding religious social services, it's better to have children suffer than help get them adopted.
The slam against religious social services is problematic. For example, The Archdiocese of Washington, DC has had to suspend its foster care program. The DC city council has passed a law legalizing same sex marriage, and says city contractors have to recognize the marriages. The Catholic service would be forced to put children in homosexual foster homes. This can't be obeyed by the Catholic Church for obvious reasons. Right now the result is adoption services have been suspended; not just in DC but in San Francisco and Boston where similar laws were passed.
We have a problem with the First Amendment violation of 'free exercise of religion'.
Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League: "If Planned Parenthood were told that as a condition of public funding it had to refer Catholic women having second thoughts about abortion to a crisis pregnancy center, it would scream violation of church and state, refuse the money and end this program."
This all is a small piece the Statist government of Obama and the Democrats must do. In history, every Statist government has to drive out religion so the State can fill the void left. Then people will worship the State. God gives us a choice whether to believe, obey, or worship Him. The State not so much; obey or be imprisoned, or have your earnings confiscated. I'd rather have a choice.
Another indication of the anti-religious bent of this Administration is secularist Harry Knox that runs Obama's Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. I posted earlier about this character here.
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