'Freedom to worship' – Obama's next bait & switch [Rev 13]

World Net Daily ^ | 4/2/2015 | BOB UNRUH

[Jan_Sobieski]

Early in President Obama’s tenure in the White House, Catholic Online and other media outlets reported what appeared to be a deliberate attack on the Constitution’s “freedom of religion” protections.

The report noted a crucial change in Obama’s language between his June 2009 speech in Cairo, Egypt, where he spoke of a Muslim America and its “freedom of religion,” to the November 2009 memorial for the Fort Hood soldiers gunned down by a radical Muslim, where he termed it “freedom of worship.”

From that point on, “freedom of worship” has become the term of choice, the report said. Now, the Daily Signal reports, the federal government has been using the term “freedom of worship” instead of the constitutional “freedom of religion” when it tests immigrants who wish to become citizens on their knowledge of the Constitution.

Now it’s gotten attention in Congress. Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., charged during a hearing that included Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson this week that the government is “misrepresenting” the First Amendment, the Daily Signal reported.

“We in the United States actually have freedom of religion, not freedom of worship,” Lankford said. “The questionnaire civics test has in it one of these things, ‘What are two rights of everyone living in the United States, and it listed out six different things: freedom of expression, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom to petition the government, freedom of worship, the right to bear arms. I’d love to see ‘freedom of worship’ switched to ‘freedom of religion.’”

The Signal was unable to obtain comment from DHS. Sarah Torre of the Heritage Foundation said the difference is significant. In practice across America, the “freedom to worship” seldom has been challenged or even questioned. But “freedom of religion” is under direct fire...

[Jan_Sobieski]

Revelation 13:11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. 12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein * to worship the first beast, whose * deadly wound was healed . 13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, 14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

If it is not broken, why does it need to be fixed? The internet has been neutral and open to all users since it was opened to the public in the 1990s. Why does the government need to create "Net Neutrality" legislation? To control it!

Americans have had the right to worship in the way they have desired since the inception of the country. Why create legislation for "Freedom of Worship"? To control religion!

Welcome to America 2015!

[no-to-illegals]

I humbly seek to disagree. There is no Bait and Switch .... zer0 hates you and all Americans ... There is no Bait and Switch ... (imho)

[henkster]

We have the freedom to worship in the government approved church building during regulated worship hours and hear the official doctrine from the licensed minister,

comrade.

[Olog-hai]

And what does that sound like . . . exactly.

In order to ensure to citizens freedom of conscience, the church in the U.S.S.R. is separated from the state, and the school from the church. Freedom of religious worship and freedom of antireligious propaganda is recognized for all citizens.

— USSR constitution of 1936 (Stalin constitution), Article 124

Citizens of the USSR are guaranteed freedom of conscience, that is, the right to profess or not to profess any religion, and to conduct religious worship or atheistic propaganda. Incitement of hostility or hatred on religious grounds is prohibited.

In the USSR, the church is separated from the state, and the school from the church.

— USSR constitution of 1977 (Brezhnev constitution), Article 52

Using the words of the USSR’s constitution is just being too blatant about where one stands.

[mrsmel]

We’re supposed to have freedom of religion, but I can’t tell it by the way recent lawsuits brought by sodomites against Christians have gone (and the reverse result in a comparable suit brought by a Christian against a sodomite business). (I thought that was pretty brazen, to rule in favor of a sodomite business for the exact same thing for which Christian businesses are losing suits)

[Flick Lives]

Bingo!