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OBAMA TOWARD RELIGION
Something to think about listed below as
Acts of Biblical Hostility by President Obama written by David Barton of Wall
Builders http://wallbuilders.com/ has come out with a list explaining why
Barack Obama is the most biblically hostile President of all time. While most of
these stories have been seen before, seeing them all laid out in one list is
pretty astonishing.
1. Acts of Hostility Toward People Of Biblical Faith:
1. Acts of Hostility Toward People Of Biblical Faith:
April 2008 – Obama speaks disrespectfully
of Christians, saying they “cling to guns or religion” and have an “antipathy to
people who aren’t like them.”
February 2009 – Obama announces plans to
revoke conscience protection for health workers who refuse to participate in
medical activities that go against their beliefs, and fully implements the plan
in February 2011.
April 2009 – When speaking at Georgetown
University, Obama orders that a monogram symbolizing Jesus’ name be covered when
he is making his speech.
May 2009 – Obama declines to host services
for the National Prayer Day (a day established by federal law) at the White
House.
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.
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.
November 2010 – Obama misquotes the
National Motto, saying
it is “E pluribus Unum” rather than “In God
We Trust” as established by federal law.
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.
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.
April 2011 – For the first time in American
history, Obama urges passage of a nondiscrimination 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.
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.
November 2011 – Obama opposes inclusion of
President Franklin Roosevelt’s famous D-Day Prayer in the WWII
Memorial.
November 2011 – Unlike previous presidents,
Obama studiously avoids any religious references in his Thanksgiving
speech.
December 2011 – The Obama administration
denigrates other countries’ religious beliefs as an obstacle to radical
homosexual rights.
January 2012– The Obama administration
argues that the First Amendment provides no protection for churches and
synagogues in hiring their pastors and rabbis.
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.
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.
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).
September 2011 – Air Force Chief of Staff
prohibits commanders from notifying airmen of programs and services available to
them from chaplains.
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.”
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.
November 2011 – The Air Force Academy pays
$80,000 to add a Stonehenge-like worship center for pagans, druids, witches and
Wiccans.
February 2012 – The U. S. Military Academy
at West Point
dis-invites 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.
February 2012 – The Air Force removes “God”
from the patch of Rapid Capabilities Office (the word on the patch was in Latin:
Dei).
February 2012 – The Army orders Catholic
chaplains not to read a letter to parishioners that their archbishop asked them
to read.
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.
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.
March 2009 – The Obama administration shut
out pro-life groups from attending a White House-sponsored health care
summit.
March 2009 – Obama orders taxpayer funding
of embryonic stem cell research.
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.
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. He continues the deletion in subsequent budgets.
May 2009 – Obama officials assemble a
terrorism dictionary calling pro-life advocates violent and charging that they
use racism in their “criminal” activities.
July 2009 – The Obama administration
illegally extends federal benefits to same-sex partners of Foreign Service and
Executive Branch employees, in direct violation of the federal Defense of
Marriage Act.
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.”
July 2010 – The Obama administration uses
federal funds in violation of federal law to get Kenya to change its
constitution to include abortion.
August 2010 – The Obama administration Cuts
funding for 176 abstinence education programs.
September 2010 – The Obama administration
tells researchers to ignore a judge’s decision striking down federal funding for
embryonic stem cell research.
February 2011 – Obama directs the Justice
Department to stop defending the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
March 2011 – The Obama administration
refuses to investigate videos showing Planned Parenthood helping alleged sex
traffickers get abortions for victimized underage girls.
July 2011 – Obama allows homosexuals to
serve openly in the military, reversing a policy originally instituted by George
Washington in March 1778.
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.
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.
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
Eid-ul-Fitr dinners in honor of
Ramadan.
April 2010 – Christian leader Franklin
Graham is dis-invited from the Pentagon’s National Day of Prayer Event because
of complaints from the Muslim community.
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.
August 2010 – Obama speaks with great
praise of Islam and condescendingly of Christianity.
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.
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.
October 2011 – Obama’s Muslim advisers
block Middle Eastern Christians’ access to the White House.
February 2012 – The Obama administration
makes effulgent apologies for Korans being burned by the U. S. military, but
when Bibles were burned by the military, numerous reasons
were offered why it was the right thing to
do.
Many of these actions are literally unprecedented – this is the first time they have happened in four centuries of American history. The hostility of President Obama toward Biblical faith and values is without equal from any previous American president.
