- . . .on Tuesday President Obama and his director of faith-based initiatives convened exactly such a meeting to try to control political damage from the unpopular health-care law. "Get out there and spread the word," Politico.com reported the president as saying on a conference call with leaders of faith-based and community groups. "I think all of you can be really important validators and trusted resources for friends and neighbors, to help explain what's now available to them." Since then, there's been nary a peep from the press.
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Obama blows over wall of separation with hot air!
Will Christmas pagents reappear this year in schools? Can we decorate the public square again? President Obama has enlisted pastors to plug his health care plan. Whoopee! The man who asked Georgetown University to remove any signs or symbols of the faith, now comes crawling since 70% of us reject his ideas on a takeover of a huge segment of the economy. The president most far out on late term killing of unborn babies, now wants churches to plug his program to impoverish more Americans. If you start hearing this drivel in your church either in Sunday School or from the pulpit, I hope you walk out!
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I think your complaint is born of misconceptions.
Separation of church and state does not prevent citizens from making decisions and voicing opinions based on principles derived from their religions. Moreover, the religious beliefs of government officials naturally may inform their decisions on policies. The principle of separation of church and state merely constrains government officials not to make decisions with the predominant purpose or primary effect of advancing religion; in other words, the predominant purpose and primary purpose must be nonreligious or secular in nature. A decision coinciding with religious views is not invalid for that reason as long as it has a secular purpose and effect.
Nothing in the principle of separation of church and state precludes the President from asking religious organizations and people to help explain and promote the government's health care programs. There is no basis for your supposition that his statements somehow conflict with the principle.
Wake Forest University recently published a short, objective Q&A primer on the current law of separation of church and state--as applied by the courts rather than as caricatured in the blogosphere. I commend it to you. http://tiny.cc/6nnnx
Doug, you may be right (or left), but if Bush had tried this, as Towey points out in his article, all hell would have broken loose from the media, who have been silent when Obama manipulates churches and pastors. On the other hand, politics has always had the pulpit in black churches. Again, when this was done in other churches it was highly condemned.
Doug doesn't seem to get how inconsistent Obama is about faith based organizations, i.e. churches.
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