Pres. Obama’s record in regard to Christians and Biblical values

WDTPRS ^ | 10/1/2012 | Fr John Zuhlsdorf

[markomalley]

The fight for our religious liberty is really just beginning.

Remember how Pres. Obama said at Notre Shame that he was interested in “common ground”?   Remember what he promised Card. Dolan?

I was sent this list by a reader.  It recounts Pres. Obama’s actions in regard to Christian values.

Take a look at this list and then ask yourself: In a second term, would he be better in this regard or worse?

1. Acts of Hostility Toward People Of Biblical Faith:

• a. April 2008 – Obama speaks disrespectfully of Christians, saying they “cling to guns or religion” and have an “antipathy to people who aren’t like them.”
• b. February 2009 – Obama announces plans to revoke conscience protection for health workers who refuse to participate in medical activities that go against their beliefs, and fully implements the plan in February 2011.
• c. April 2009 – When speaking at Georgetown University , Obama orders that a monogram symbolizing Jesus’ name be covered when he is making his speech.
• d. May 2009 – Obama declines to host services for the National Prayer Day (a day established by federal law) at the White House.
• e. April 2009 – In a deliberate act of disrespect, Obama nominated three pro-abortion ambassadors to the Vatican ; of course, the pro-life Vatican rejected all three.
• f. October 19, 2010 – Obama begins deliberately omitting the phrase about “the Creator” when quoting the Declaration of Independence – an omission he has made on no less than seven occasions.
• g. November 2010 – Obama misquotes the National Motto, saying it is “E pluribus Unum” rather than “In God We Trust” as established by federal law.
• h. January 2011 – After a federal law was passed to transfer a WWI Memorial in the Mojave Desert to private ownership, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that the cross in the memorial could continue to stand, but the Obama administration refused to allow the land to be transferred as required by law, and refused to allow the cross to be re-erected as ordered by the Court.
• i. February 2011 – Although he filled posts in the State Department, for more than two years Obama did not fill the post of religious freedom ambassador, an official that works against religious persecution across the world; he filled it only after heavy pressure from the public and from Congress.
• j. April 2011 – For the first time in American history, Obama urges passage of a non-discrimination law that does not contain hiring protections for religious groups, forcing religious organizations to hire according to federal mandates without regard to the dictates of their own faith, thus eliminating conscience protection in hiring.
• k. August 2011 – The Obama administration releases its new health care rules that override religious conscience protections for medical workers in the areas of abortion and contraception.
• l. November 2011 – Obama opposes inclusion of President Franklin Roosevelt’s famous D-Day Prayer in the WWII Memorial.
• m. November 2011 – Unlike previous presidents, Obama studiously avoids any religious references in his Thanksgiving speech.
• n. December 2011 – The Obama administration denigrates other countries’ religious beliefs as an obstacle to radical homosexual rights.
• o. January 2012 – The Obama administration argues that the First Amendment provides no protection for churches and synagogues in hiring their pastors and rabbis.
• p. February 2012 – The Obama administration forgives student loans in exchange for public service, but announces it will no longer forgive student loans if the public service is related to religion.

2. Acts of Hostility From The Obama-Led Military Toward People Of Biblical Faith:

• a. June 2011 – The Department of Veterans Affairs forbids references to God and Jesus during burial ceremonies at Houston National Cemetery ..
• b. August 2011 – The Air Force stops teaching the Just War theory to officers in California because the course is taught by chaplains and is based on a philosophy introduced by St. Augustine in the third century AD – a theory long taught by civilized nations across the world (except America).
• c. September 2011 – Air Force Chief of Staff prohibits commanders from notifying airmen of programs and services available to them from chaplains.
• d. September 2011 – The Army issues guidelines for Walter Reed Medical Center stipulating that “No religious items (i.e. Bibles, reading materials and/or facts) are allowed to be given away or used during a visit.”
• e. November 2011 – The Air Force Academy rescinds support for Operation Christmas Child, a program to send holiday gifts to impoverished children across the world, because the program is run by a Christian charity.
• f. November 2011 – The Air Force Academy pays $80,000 to add a Stonehenge-like worship center for pagans, druids, witches and Wiccans.
• g. February 2012 – The U. S. Military Academy at West Point dis-invites three star Army general and decorated war hero Lieutenant General William G. (“Jerry”) Boykin (retired) from speaking at an event because he is an outspoken Christian.
• h. February 2012 – The Air Force removes “God” from the patch of Rapid Capabilities Office (the word on the patch was in Latin: Dei).
• i. February 2012 – The Army orders Catholic chaplains not to read a letter to parishioners that their archbishop asked them to read.

3. Acts of Hostility Toward Biblical Values:

• a. January 2009 – Obama lifts restrictions on U.S. government funding for groups that provide abortion services or counseling abroad, forcing taxpayers to fund pro-abortion groups that either promote or perform abortions in other nations.
• b. January 2009 – President Obama’s nominee for deputy secretary of state asserts that American taxpayers are required to pay for abortions and that limits on abortion funding are unconstitutional.
• c. March 2009 – The Obama administration shut out pro-life groups from attending a White House-sponsored health care summit.
• d. March 2009 – Obama orders taxpayer funding of embryonic stem cell research.
• e. March 2009 – Obama gave $50 million for the UNFPA, the UN population agency that promotes abortion and works closely with Chinese population control officials who use forced abortions and involuntary sterilizations.
• f. May 2009 – The White House budget eliminates all funding for abstinence-only education and replaces it with “comprehensive” sexual education, repeatedly proven to increase teen pregnancies and abortions. He continues the deletion in subsequent budgets.
• g. May 2009 – Obama officials assemble a terrorism dictionary calling pro-life advocates violent and charging that they use racism in their “criminal” activities.
• h. July 2009 – The Obama administration illegally extends federal benefits to same-sex partners of Foreign Service and Executive Branch employees, in direct violation of the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
• i. September 16, 2009 – The Obama administration appoints as EEOC Commissioner Chai Feldblum, who asserts that society should “not tolerate” any “private beliefs,” including religious beliefs, if they may negatively affect homosexual “equality.”
• j. July 2010 – The Obama administration uses federal funds in violation of federal law to get Kenya to change its constitution to include abortion.
• k. August 2010 – The Obama administration Cuts funding for 176 abstinence education programs.
• l. September 2010 – The Obama administration tells researchers to ignore a judge’s decision striking down federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
• m. February 2011 – Obama directs the Justice Department to stop defending the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
• n. March 2011 – The Obama administration refuses to investigate videos showing Planned Parenthood helping alleged sex traffickers get abortions for victimized underage girls.
• o. July 2011 – Obama allows homosexuals to serve openly in the military, reversing a policy originally instituted by George Washington in March 1778.
• p. September 2011 – The Pentagon directs that military chaplains may perform same-sex marriages at military facilities in violation of the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
• q. October 2011 – The Obama administration eliminates federal grants to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for their extensive programs that aid victims of human trafficking because the Catholic Church is anti-abortion.

4. Acts Of Preferentialism For Islam:

• a. May 2009 – While Obama does not host any National Day of Prayer event at the White House, he does host White House Iftar dinners in honor of Ramadan.
• b. April 2010 – Christian leader Franklin Graham is dis-invited from the Pentagon’s National Day of Prayer Event because of complaints from the Muslim community.
• c. April 2010 – The Obama administration requires rewriting of government documents and a change in administration vocabulary to remove terms that are deemed offensive to Muslims, including jihad, jihadists, terrorists, radical Islamic, etc.
• d. August 2010 – Obama speaks with great praise of Islam and condescendingly of Christianity.
• e. August 2010 – Obama went to great lengths to speak out on multiple occasions on behalf of building an Islamic mosque at Ground Zero, while at the same time he was silent about a Christian church being denied permission to rebuild at that location.
• f. 2010 – While every White House traditionally issues hundreds of official proclamations and statements on numerous occasions, this White House avoids traditional Biblical holidays and events but regularly recognizes major Muslim holidays, as evidenced by its 2010 statements on Ramadan, Eid-ul-Fitr, Hajj, and Eid-ul-Adha.
• g. October 2011 – Obama’s Muslim advisers block Middle Eastern Christians’ access to the White House.
• h. February 2012 – The Obama administration makes effulgent apologies for Korans being burned by the U. S. military, but when Bibles were burned by the military, numerous reasons were offered why it was the right thing to do.

 

[STJPII]

Thanks for posting this.

[faithhopecharity]

Thanks very much for posting this. The problem is deep in his soul (and that of some of his followers and czars and delegates). It is not likely to suddenly correct itself in a second term.

[Sola Veritas]

All of this is VERY true....but I am already such I would NEVER vote for Mr. Obama...Never.

However, since it mentions his problems with Christianity. Bottom line is that Romney is part of a cult that perverts Christianity. Romney, as a devout Mormon, is a “functional” or “practical” anti-Christian in his beliefs. Since he pushes Mormonisn, he is anti-Christian.

In the purely secular sense, he is a “better” man than Obama. His devout Mormonisn makes him someone I cannot vote for. Plus, his liberal record in Mass. is plenty of reason to not trust him outside of his Mormonism.

So, I will NEVER vote for Mr. Obama, but I will not vote for Mr. Romney either. Both men are unacceptable to me. So, I will vote third party for POTUS, or leave that portion of the ballot blank. I have voted for the GOP candidate for POTUS in every election since I first voted in 1976. I will not vote for Romney this time, no more than I would Obama.

We know that Obama is bad....you are “preaching to the choir” to talk about it on FR. IF you think that will move conservatives like myself to support Mr. Romney...you are seriously mistaken.

[TigerClaws]

Thread from earlier today on related topic

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2938562/posts

[fwdude]

Better don your flame-proof suit, SV. You’re going to need it. I have an extra on back order.

[native texan]

This is the most important election in our history since I have been alive (75 yr old) I am neither Catholic nor Mormon, but I am a Christian. Our country is being threatened by a cult...Islam..who wants to do away with us unless we convert to their religion. Please don’t sit at home and not vote. Romney is an honorable man. He does LOVE the USA.

[native texan]

By the way, this might be the last election we have in the country we now call the United States of America.

[fwdude]

Obama and Romney come from the same corrupt, rotten root. You just don’t know it... yet.

I’d like to see the look on your face when you find out. Maybe your subsequent posts will show it.

[Josephat]

I read your profile and I share most, if not all, of your views and opinions...except one. We KNOW that Obama is morally bankrupt and appears to be serving a dark master. The examples of actions taken cited in the article prove that. We don’t really KNOW much about Romney, only what the traitorous media has told us and his record in Mass, which is certainly not stellar from a conservative viewpoint. He was certainly not my choice of a candidate when the field had so many true conservatives. I didn’t trust him then and I have reservations now. BUT it must be anybody but Obama or we are doomed. We may face a similar fate with Romney but we don’t KNOW that. A vote for a third party may make you feel good when you are leaving the poll but when the votes are counted if Obama wins you should feel ashamed because it could just be that you and others who think like you bring us the end of America. Please consider holding your nose and voting for a chance for our beloved country. Just a chance that our country can change course. A third party vote offers no chance. Is that really what you want?

[Josephat]

Please elaborate.

[fwdude]

Alan Keyes expresses it much better than I ever could:
Keyes to the Republic Vol. 1 President Obama and Mitt Romney

Basically, Romney has already implemented, at a state level, almost everything that Obama only wishes he could.

[Josephat]

Basically, Romney has already implemented, at a state level, almost everything that Obama only wishes he could.

I know that, BUT it was at the state level and these were things that should be legislated by the state and the feds should never touch. The states laws should reflect the will of its citizens. Mass. is a very liberal state and it would seem fitting that its laws would be among the more liberal and that its governor would not try to impose his will against those of the citizens. There is an interesting story written by the guy who bought the Romney’s house in Utah. On the day of the closing Romney showed up and offered to walk through the house and show the new owner how things worked. That simple act of kindness says a lot about the man, IMHO. He also had friends and family help him pack up and move. This was in the last few years so he certainly could have afforded full service movers and having moved a few times, I certainly would pay someone to avoid that drudgery if money was not a consideration. Apparently he does not mind hard work, a stark contrast to the golfer in chief we have now.
Romney may not be perfect. Who is? Only God and to my knowledge He is not running. Romney certainly falls far short of God’s perfection but Obama seems to be the very antithesis of it and those are the only two viable choices that we have at this moment in time. Meanwhile work to get solid conservatives elected to local and state government and PRAY a lot.

[fwdude]

So, should we not have extrapolated what Obama did as a state representative in Illinois to what philosophy he would follow as a national elected official? That makes no sense.

You don't go from holding one position at a state level to a completely OPPOSITE position on a national level. To expect as much is insanity and suicide.

[Josephat]

Were they his positions or was he signing legislation voted on and passed by the state legislators? I don’t know the answer to that but I do know that Obama thinks it is okay to let babies die in broom closets if they survive a bothched abortion. That is a sign of a very dark soul. ABO.

[fwdude]

...I do know that Obama thinks it is okay to let babies die in broom closets if they survive a bothched abortion. That is a sign of a very dark soul. ABO.

Then I take it that you have no idea of Romney's steadfast position on abortion? He tried, SUCCESSFULLY, to "out-choice" Ted Kennedy.

That takes a mighty dark soul in my book.

[Sola Veritas]

“Our country is being threatened by a cult...Islam”

Actually, Islam is not a “cult”, it is a false religion. Mormonism is a “cult” because it is a false perversion of Christianity pretending to be Christian. Mormonisn is, in the eternal sense, every bit the “threat to America” and Islam.

As a Christian, you should be wise enough to know that a “false” Christianity is worse than a “false religion”, in that a cult like Mormonisn is harder to recognize as false...as evidenced by your post. There are a great many persons that are “honorably” men that I would not vote for. However, there is nothing remotely “honorable” about spreading a false Christianity that leads persons to hell. It is despicable in the extreme.

[Sola Veritas]

“We KNOW that Obama is morally bankrupt and appears to be serving a dark master.”

Yes, Obama is obviously serving a “dark master”, but what is insidious is that Romney is also. I will not betray real Christianity by helping to place a false Christian in the highest office of the land where he WILL mislead others into his false Christianity. I would plead with you to put your Christian beliefs first and don’t vote for the “lesser of two evils where both evils are unacceptable. Holding your nose is a mistake....don’t do it.

[angelsonmyside]

bump

[Sola Veritas]

“I know that, BUT it was at the state level and these were things that should be legislated by the state and the feds should never touch.”

That is specious logic. What is wrong at the federal level, is usually JUST AS WRONG at the state level.

The man, Romney, cannot be trusted anymore than Obama.