Posted on 07/22/2014 11:39:28 AM PDT by Kaslin
Dear Mr. President, I write to you today as a concerned citizen of our great nation, standing as a witness against your historic actions on the morning of July 21, 2014, actions which I hope you will one day repudiate with deep remorse and regret.
I am referring, of course, to your signing an executive order Monday banning “discrimination” by federal contractors against LGBT people, allowing for no religious exemptions of any kind.
This was an outrageous act of discrimination against religion in the name of anti-discrimination, an act of bullying people of faith in the name of the prevention of bullying.
How can you, as a man who professes to be a person of faith and a follower of Jesus, throw religious Americans, in particular Christians, under the bus?
How can you attempt to force Christians, Jews, Muslims, and others, to violate fundamental aspects of their moral codes in order to appease a small but powerful special interest group, one that is not, in fact, suffering daily economic hardship by being fired from their jobs because of their sexual orientation or expression?
Have you forgotten entirely that our nation was founded on the concept of religious freedom?
It was unfortunate that you did not reflect on the recent Supreme Court decisions that made clear that you and your administration have consistently overstepped your bounds. Instead, once again, you bypassed the will of the people, as reflected in their elected officials, and simply made a decision affecting millions of Americans.
Worse still, you ignored the appeals of trusted religious leaders, some of whom campaigned for you in the past and others of whom have been among your trusted advisors, deciding instead to side with radical LGBT activism.
These leaders made a righteous and reasonable appeal to you, writing, “Mr. President, you have spoken eloquently of your commitment to protecting religious liberty, our nation’s first freedom. As you seek to promote the rights of LGBT persons, please also protect the rights of faith-based organizations that simply desire to utilize staffing practices consistent with their deep religious convictions as they partner with the federal government via contracting or subcontracting.”
In response, you mocked these “deep religious convictions,” and there are no words you can say to minimize the seriousness of your actions.
Mr. President, what was wrong with letting Congress make an informed decision on ENDA? Do you scorn the political process so much that you bypass it entirely?
You stated that, “I’m going to do what I can, with the authority I have, to act,” but the implications of your actions are massive.
An organization like Prison Reform, which utilizes federal funds to help transform the lives of inmates, would suffer dramatic financial setbacks should they simply refuse to hire individuals who violate their time-proven, biblically-based code of conduct.
Children supported by World Vision, with the help of federal funds, would be deprived of food and shelter unless World Vision leaders compromised their Christian convictions. (After much soul searching this year, they have made clear that they will not compromise).
Fine Christian universities, which provide important academic and ethical training for the next generation of leaders and which are also the recipients of federal funding, could suffer a massive blow unless they forsake the faith on which their institutions were built.
Mr. President, must you now even take the place of God and tell Christians what they can and cannot actively practice?
I concur with Peter Sprigg who wrote that, “This level of coercion is nothing less than viewpoint blackmail that bullies into silence every contractor and subcontractor who has moral objections to homosexual behavior. This order gives activists a license to challenge their employers and, expose those employers to threats of costly legal proceedings and the potential of jeopardizing future contracts.”
In truth, this is not a Civil Rights issue, as if gay were the new black. As Catholic leader Austin Ruse observed, “the LGBTs are the most powerful aggrieved minority the world has ever known,” while, in contrast, “Black Americans really were aggrieved: enslaved, not allowed to vote, discriminated against in housing, banking, and much else, hunted down and lynched.”
As our nation’s first African American president, you must surely see the difference. Or is it true, as your critics claim, that you really intend to declare war on religion in America?
It is one thing to treat all people fairly, be they male or female, gay or straight, young or old. It is another thing to trample religious freedoms under foot and to attempt to coerce, with the full force of the government, men and women of deep religious faith and commitment.
Mr. President, there are millions of Americans who pray for you on a regular basis, and I have often called on my radio listeners to pray that you would be the greatest president in American history.
Despite those prayers, you took it upon yourself to enact an order which declares that, in the workplace, sexual rights trump religious rights. What a terrible, tragic shame.
I do pray for you, sir, as my president, that God would grant you the humility to recognize the error of your ways. At the same time, I assure you that there are countless thousands of Christian leaders and people of faith who will neither abandon their convictions nor be silenced from articulating those convictions.
And so, perhaps, in God’s providence, what you intended as a religious restriction will become the impetus for a religious awakening.
After all, you might well be the most powerful human being on the planet, but we will all bow down one day before the throne of God, and He will have the final say.
The left is obsessed with skin color and genitalia.
Just stop taking federal money and tax exemptions. Is it really that difficult? And everyone knows Obama follows no God but rather sees himself as we identify a communist government.... Stupid article.
The above is the problem we face. This country already feels like a pressure cooker. Something is either going to snap, or we slooooowly fix this country and provide people with the chance to succeed again on their own with Government out of the way (an up hill battle that will take a couple decades at least). I don't see us having two decades with the debt we are in.
Why would BO be so obsessed with queers except that he is one?
Ha! It appears government money turns everyone into liberals.
The next President can take down his EO with a stroke of a pen, but won’t
Homos are the spearpoint of the agenda to criminalize Christianity.
The author needs to start from this premise, that Obama and his ilk are intent on criminalizing Christian beliefs,
and all his questions will be answered from there.
As for Muslims discriminating against homos, well, laws are meant to be selectively enforced by the elite who know better,
right?
They’ll just turn a blind eye to Muslims discriminating against gays, because, as I’ve stated, there’s another agend.
Which one?
The above is the problem we face. This country already feels like a pressure cooker. Something is either going to snap, or we slooooowly fix this country and provide people with the chance to succeed again on their own with Government out of the way (an up hill battle that will take a couple decades at least). I don’t see us having two decades with the debt we are in.
Regarding not having two decades, I really like this example:
“Imagine a magic pipette. It is magic because every drop of water that comes out of it will double in size every minute. So the first minute there is one drop, the second minute there are two drops, the third minute four drops, the fourth minute eight drops and so on… This is an example of exponential growth. Now, imagine a normal sized football stadium. In this stadium you are sitting on the seat at the very top of the stadium, with the best overview of the whole stadium. To make things more interesting, imagine the stadium is completely water-tight and that you cannot move from your seat. The first drop from the magic pipette is dropped right in the middle of the field, at 12pm. Here’s the question: Remembering that this drop grows exponentially by doubling in size every minute, how much time do you have to free yourself from the seat and leave the stadium before the water reaches your seat at the very top? Think about it for a moment. Is it hours, days, weeks, months?
“The answer: You have exactly until 12:49pm. It takes this tiny magic drop less than 50 minutes to fill a whole football stadium with water. This is impressive! But it gets better: At what time do you think the football stadium is still 93% empty? Take a guess.
“The answer: At 12:45pm. So, you sit and watch the drop growing, and after 45 minutes all you see is the playing field covered with water. And then, within four more minutes, the water fills the whole stadium. This means that you think you are safe because it seems that you have plenty of time left, whereas due to the exponential growth you really have to take immediate action if you want to have any chance of getting out of this situation.”
I think we are in that situation but the doubling is every year, not every minute. And I think we are at around 12:47.
Picture of a big fat mistake.
They were on another tip of an iceberg at Murrieta.
They were going to send in force, but decided the “optics” would be against them.
The press reported Murrietta thinking that the public would be against those “nasty, racist Tea Party protesters”, but it didn’t work out that way.
Jarrett & company are probably already at work on “payback” for the good people of Murrieta.
Very good point.
Something is definitely afoot and the water is getting quite high (reference to my previous post).
The Church is not taking Federal money. The only thing that used to get some support was Catholic Charities, which actually had a lot of agencies in a lot of places essentially doing the work that local jurisdictions either couldn’t or wouldn’t do.
Many Catholics stopped contributing to Catholic Charities long ago, and actually, it’s come full circle, because now the “Catholic” in their name doesn’t get them money from Catholics but it also virtually excludes them from getting Federal money for a lot of the good programs they used to run (such as adoption, etc.) because the newer more orthodox bishops have forbidden them to adopt to gays and do many other things that they would otherwise be doing. This funding was not in the form of direct grants, but for running programs for the disadvantaged or persons in crisis.
It’s a bad thing in many ways; Planned Parenthood wanted the Church driven out of the adoption business so that they could tell girls there was no option to abortion, and as usual, PP got what it wanted.
Catholic Charities is barely Catholic. Subsisting on Obama money, while remaining open to private donations from the well meaning makes for odd bedfellows and possibly a fine slush fund operation.
Are charities a charity when propped up by government and serving its political interests?
Yeah, there was a column after Bunkerville wherein the leftist author just could not fathom “making the federal government back down”.
It was an interesting insight into the statist mindset.
It was as if some definition had been violated,
like making God “back down”. (yes, leftists substitute the state for God)
Just as Boehner has no plans to defund the Unconstitutional acts of Obama, it is likely that a future President, Democrat or Rino, will not cancel Obama’s EOs. These EOs will give them the same power as Obama.
Catholic Charities has no more do do with the Catholic Church than their name
That’s it.
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