Posted on 03/24/2014 11:20:20 AM PDT by mandaladon
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker believes he can do all things through Christ, but an atheist group charges that he cannot do all things through Christ on his official social media platforms.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has demanded Walker remove posts from his official Facebook and Twitter feeds that read, “Philippians 4:13.”
“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me,” the verse reads.
“This braggadocio verse coming from a public official is rather disturbing,” FFRF co-presidents Annie Laurie Gaylor and Dan Baker wrote in a letter to the governor. “To say, ‘I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me,’ seems more like a threat, or the utterance of a theocratic dictator, than a duly elected civil servant.”
They accused the governor of misusing his authority to “promote not just religion over non-religion, but one religion over another in a manner that makes many Wisconsin citizens uncomfortable.”
The atheist outrage over the governor’s beliefs seems almost unbelievable.
I reached out to Walker’s office, and his staff told me the governor has absolutely no plans to remove anything.
“Governor Walker will not remove the post on his social media,” press secretary Laurel Patrick told me. “The verse was part of a devotional he read that morning, which inspired him, and he chose to share it.”
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Oh those Freedom from Religion people, make my stomach turn. They may be headquartered in Wisconsin.
Keep up the good work Scott Walker.
Oh those Freedom from Religion people, make my stomach turn. They may be headquartered in Wisconsin.
Keep up the good work Scott Walker.
Headquartered in Madison, WI, actually.
Stay strong, Scotty!
He knows that in the US, the constitution applies to every citizen equally. This means he has the exact same constitutional rights you and I have. It means he can say whatever he wants about himself on his employer’s site. In fact, the constitution protects his right to do so. You don’t lose those rights when you go to work. And if the government tries to stop him, his “free exercise” of his religious beliefs are being violated.
If they don’t like it, they can vote him out. ;)
The 1st amendment is pretty bloody specific.
Quick, somebody alert Mr. Lincoln!
His Second Inaugural, a rather short address of 600 words, contains at least six quotations of or allusions to Scripture.
We where warned about this two thousand years ago.
The World Hates the Disciples
18 “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. 19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. 20 Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’[a] If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. 21 They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 Whoever hates me hates my Father as well. 24 If I had not done among them the works no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. 25 But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated me without reason.’
John 15:18-25
thanks gov walker. keep witnessing. keep working. may God bless you.
They are trying to use the power of government to “establish” THEIR “religion” of Atheism.
Of course a REAL Atheist wouldn’t CARE a bit what others “believe”.
[They accused the governor of misusing his authority to “promote not just religion over non-religion, but one religion over another in a manner that makes many Wisconsin citizens uncomfortable.”]
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To hear any man identify himself as an atheist makes Christians feel uncomfortable.
Isn’t the good governor and American citizen first and foremost? And does he not also enjoy the protections of the First amendment since no law has been made by Congress?
Why should atheists care what a Christian believes? They should ignore it if they didn’t have a Marxist agenda behind their feigned outrage.
Pray America wakes up
Dear Annie Laurie Gaylor
Kiss My CHristian ..backside
SIncerely.
He is still allowed to have his own personality. He can be pompous and bellicose like Christie, or he can be introspective and devout, like Walker.
Liberals want to turn all politicians into narrow-minded robots who are programmed to repeat the party line. They will use things like deeply-held religious thoughts and office smartphones as weapons to pummel Walker into submission.
Article VI of the Constitution says "...but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States." Just as one cannot be excluded from public office for their religious beliefs, one cannot be expelled from office for expressing a religious belief.
Good for Walker to stand up for himself.
-PJ
They are trying to use the power of government to “establish” THEIR “religion” of Atheism.
To never hear a statesman speak of one’s faith in God would make Christians feel uncomfortable. Let’s try to apply principle evenly here.
“There is no God and I hate Him.”
Thanks mandaladon.
But don’t forget now, Walker’s a useless RINO. /s
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