All kinds of folks say there is a division of religion and politics, is there?
April
2009 – When speaking at Georgetown University, Obama orders that a
monogram symbolizing Jesus' name be covered when he is making his
speech. 3
May 2009 – Obama declines to host services for the
National Prayer Day (a day established by federal law) at the White
House. 4
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. 5
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. 6
November 2010 – Obama misquotes the
National Motto, saying it is “E pluribus unum” rather than “In God We
Trust” as established by federal law. 7
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. 8
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. 9
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. 10
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. 11
November 2011 – Obama opposes inclusion of President Franklin Roosevelt’s famous D-Day Prayer in the WWII Memorial. 12
November 2011 – Unlike previous presidents, Obama studiously avoids any religious references in his Thanksgiving speech. 13
December 2011 – The Obama administration denigrates other countries'
religious beliefs as an obstacle to radical homosexual rights. 14
January 2012 – The Obama administration argues that the First Amendment
provides no protection for churches and synagogues in hiring their
pastors and rabbis. 15
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. 16
2. Acts of hostility from the Obama-led military toward people of Biblical faith:
June 2011 – The Department of Veterans Affairs forbids references to
God and Jesus during burial ceremonies at Houston National Cemetery. 17
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). 18
September 2011 – Air Force Chief of Staff prohibits
commanders from notifying airmen of programs and services available to
them from chaplains. 19
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.” 20
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. 21
November 2011 –
The Air Force Academy pays $80,000 to add a Stonehenge-like worship
center for pagans, druids, witches and Wiccans. 22
February 2012 –
The U. S. Military Academy at West Point disinvites 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. 23
February 2012 – The Air Force removes “God” from
the patch of Rapid Capabilities Office (the word on the patch was in
Latin: Dei). 24
February 2012 – The Army orders Catholic
chaplains not to read a letter to parishioners that their archbishop
asked them to read. 25
April 2012 – A checklist for Air Force
Inns will no longer include ensuring that a Bible is available in rooms
for those who want to use them.26
May 2012 - The Obama
administration opposes legislation to protect the rights of conscience
for military chaplains who do not wish to perform same-sex marriages in
violation of their strongly-held religious beliefs.27
June 2012 -
Bibles for the American military have been printed in every conflict
since the American Revolution, but the Obama Administration revokes the
long-standing U. S. policy of allowing military service emblems to be
placed on those military Bibles.28
3. Acts of hostility toward Biblical values:
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. 29
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. 30
March 2009 – The Obama administration shut out pro-life groups from attending a White House-sponsored health care summit. 31
March 2009 – Obama orders taxpayer funding of embryonic stem cell research. 32
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. 33
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. 34 He continues the deletion in subsequent
budgets. 35
May 2009 – Obama officials assemble a terrorism
dictionary calling pro-life advocates violent and charging that they use
racism in their “criminal” activities. 36
July 2009 – The Obama
administration illegally extends federal benefits to same-sex partners
of Foreign Service and Executive Branch employees, in direction
violation of the federal Defense of Marriage Act. 37
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.” 38
July 2010 – The Obama administration
uses federal funds in violation of federal law to get Kenya to change
its constitution to include abortion. 39
August 2010 – The Obama administration Cuts funding for 176 abstinence education programs. 40
September 2010 – The Obama administration tells researchers to ignore
a judge’s decision striking down federal funding for embryonic stem
cell research. 41
February 2011 – Obama directs the Justice Department to stop defending the federal Defense of Marriage Act. 42
March 2011 – The Obama administration refuses to investigate videos
showing Planned Parenthood helping alleged sex traffickers get abortions
for victimized underage girls. 43
July 2011 – Obama allows
homosexuals to serve openly in the military, reversing a policy
originally instituted by George Washington in March 1778. 44
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. 45
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. 46
4. Acts of preferentialism for Islam:
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. 47
April 2010 – Christian leader Franklin Graham is
disinvited from the Pentagon’s National Day of Prayer Event because of
complaints from the Muslim community. 48
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. 49
August 2010 – Obama speaks with great praise of Islam and condescendingly of Christianity. 50
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. 51
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. 52
October 2011 – Obama’s Muslim advisers block Middle Eastern Christians’ access to the White House. 53
February 2012 – The Obama administration makes effulgent apologies
for Korans being burned by the U. S. military, 54 but when Bibles were
burned by the military, numerous reasons were offered why it was the
right thing to do. 55
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