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Obama to Pope Francis: "We stand with you in defense of religious freedom"
Hot Air ^ | 9/23/2015 | AllahPundit

Posted on 09/24/2015 3:33:25 PM PDT by NetAddicted

Via RCP, the balls on this guy to even pay lip service to this subject in front of the Pope. Give me one example of the Obama administration going to the mat to expand religious freedom here or abroad. He fought Hobby Lobby and the Little Sisters of the Poor in court to make them provide contraception as part of their health-care plans notwithstanding their religious objections. He sits by and says nothing when small business owners are sued into oblivion by state AGs when they politely refuse to provide services to gay weddings on grounds that their faith doesn’t allow it. (Actual quote from the clip you’re about to watch: “People everywhere must be able to live out their faith free from fear and free from intimidation.”) He just made a deal with a theocratic Shiite regime that’s persecuting Sunnis in Syria, clearing the way for them to become a nuclear power in 15 years. He’s running a halfhearted war of token airstrikes against ISIS, an even greater persecutor of religious minorities, despite domestic and international clamor for him to do more. What’s the big Obama legacy achievement on religious freedom that warrants him even mentioning this topic? Where’s the evidence that the overwhelmingly secular, statist national Democratic leadership views religious freedom as an important priority at all?

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Cant believe the big zero actually said this.
1 posted on 09/24/2015 3:33:25 PM PDT by NetAddicted
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To: NetAddicted

Hey Pope! We don’t believe anything he says so you might want to take that with a grain of salt. Even the Nobel Commission now thinks he just a bag of wind.


2 posted on 09/24/2015 3:38:38 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't you wish the government would treat us the way it treats illegal alien "refugee" invaders?)
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To: NetAddicted

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxvXJvn8jQM
“Pope Francis Says Koran and Bible Teach the Same Thing”


3 posted on 09/24/2015 3:41:12 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: NetAddicted

Obama is a liar.


4 posted on 09/24/2015 3:43:41 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: NetAddicted
he lies to the Pope but won't lie to the Ayatollah
6 posted on 09/24/2015 3:49:07 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: NetAddicted

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM to the Pope: free will of the individual to choose and to find faith (hopefully Christianity, but its Free Will and faith is a gift from God anyway)

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“religious freedom” for the O:
IslamoNazis to invade, infiltrate, terrorize, attack, subjugate and murder Christians, Jews, and other “infidels.”


7 posted on 09/24/2015 3:50:39 PM PDT by faithhopecharity
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To: NetAddicted

I can’t either.


8 posted on 09/24/2015 3:51:03 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: NetAddicted

It doesn’t take ‘balls’ when he has all the newspapers, all the broadcast stations and all of the cable news networks (with the occasional exception of Fox) running cover for him.


9 posted on 09/24/2015 3:51:07 PM PDT by pluvmantelo (My hope for America died 11-06-12.)
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To: NetAddicted

What a lie that is.


10 posted on 09/24/2015 3:52:00 PM PDT by mulligan (I)
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To: drypowder
Read Obamacare if you think Obama doesn't hate religons that are not Muslims.

Of the 100,000 people in the middle east who Obama let come to the US , only 5% are Christians

11 posted on 09/24/2015 3:53:46 PM PDT by scooby321
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To: Original Lurker

Obama needs to read Foxes Book of Martyrs and learn a little about Rome’s history of tolerance.


12 posted on 09/24/2015 3:54:09 PM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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To: NetAddicted

well after all ... Obama is a paid professional liar. Reminds me of that scene in DeathTrap where they discuss the definition of a “sociopath”.


13 posted on 09/24/2015 3:57:00 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: drypowder

Remember... he’s not a muslim.


14 posted on 09/24/2015 3:57:21 PM PDT by Califreak (Hope and Che'nge is killing U.S. Feel the Trump-mentum!(insert ireally.supportCruzdisclaimerhere/))
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To: NetAddicted

Obama: “If you like your religious freedom, you can keep your religious freedom.”


15 posted on 09/24/2015 3:58:49 PM PDT by Deo volente (God willing, America shall survive this Obamanation.)
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To: .45 Long Colt

Thanks for the reading suggestion.

I was but a very young man (21) when I did a very long tour of Catholic Europe. I COULD NOT BELIEVE the the idolatry that is the worship of “Mary”. It is astonishing.


16 posted on 09/24/2015 3:58:59 PM PDT by Original Lurker
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To: Original Lurker

All I remember about this church is nuns telling me how evil I am, and the worship of Mary. I walked out at age 12, never to return.


17 posted on 09/24/2015 4:08:44 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: NetAddicted; All
Thank you for referencing that article NetAddicted. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

"Give me one example of the Obama administration going to the mat to expand religious freedom here or abroad."

Note that the Constitution, particularly Section 5 of the 14th Amendment (14A), indicates that Congress is the starting point for strengthening constitutionally enumerated personal protections, 1st Amendment (1A)-protected religous expression in this case. The Supreme Court put it this way.

“3. The right of suffrage was not necessarily one of the privileges or immunities of citizenship before the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, and that amendment does not add to these privileges and immunities. It simply furnishes additional guaranty for the protection of such as the citizen already had [emphasis added].” —Minor v. Happersett, 1874.

The problem is that we have a worthless, RINO-controlled Congress that’s evidently not willing to lift a finger to enforce Section 1 of 14A which prohibits the states from abridging constitutionally enumerated protections like 1A-protected religous expression.

14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

The irony is that it’s probably better if corrupt Congress doesn’t take any action to “strengthen” our 1A-protected religious freedoms.

Remember in November ’16!

18 posted on 09/24/2015 4:12:18 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: NetAddicted

BS!


19 posted on 09/24/2015 4:16:47 PM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes mandatory ... Thomas Jefferson)
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To: NetAddicted

“...unless you own a fast food chain, bakery, florist shop, or work for the government.”


20 posted on 09/24/2015 4:17:01 PM PDT by polymuser ( Enough is enough)
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