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Apparently the Republican sport of bashing the President continues unabated.
Forty-two members of the Congressional Prayer Caucus, all but one of them Republican, complained in a letter sent to the White House on December 6 that in a speech delivered last month in Jakarta, Indonesia, President Obama substituted the U.S.’s religious-themed national motto for a more secular alternative.
Missing God?
The caucus wrote that Obama used e pluribus unum (out of many, one) as the motto of the United States instead of “In God We Trust.” While e pluribus unum is part of the nation’s seal and has been an unofficial motto since the country’s founding, the group was upset that he didn’t use “In God We Trust” in its place.
From ABC News:
In addition to the misstep in Indonesia, the caucus, which includes arch-partisan Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn, accuses the president of intentionally editing God out of other recent speeches, too.
“Additionally, during three separate events this fall, when quoting from the Declaration of Independence, you mentioned we have inalienable rights, but consistently failed to mention the source of those rights. The Declaration of Independence definitively recognizes God, our Creator, as the source of our rights. Omitting the word ‘Creator’ once was a mistake, but twice establishes a pattern,” reads the letter.
Obama Gave Four Mentions To God
These caucus members chose not to mention that in this same Indonesia speech, President Obama did mention God four times. Actually, he spoke quite spiritually:
“Across an archipelago that contains some of God’s most beautiful creations, islands rising above an ocean named for peace, people choose to worship God as they please. Islam flourishes, but so do other faiths. Development is strengthened by an emerging democracy. Ancient traditions endure, even as a rising power is on the move,” the President said.
Obama Threatening Our Security
But it seems that these Congressional Prayer Caucus members are unimpressed by spirituality. According to them, by failing to mention God in the right places, the President is “removing one of the cornerstones of our secure freedom.”
These Republicans should be ashamed of themselves, playing on the fears of Americans. (In August, a Pew poll found that 43 percent of Americans did not know President Obama was an avowed Christian, and 18 percent believed he was a Muslim.)
President-Bashing A Christian Activity?
As the Reverend Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United, said in a statement on Monday, “The Prayer Caucus should just admit that it is looking for any opportunity to bash the president. It’s not very Christian of them.”
This has nothing to do with religion; this is politics at its worst.
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Great article. Although not a parent myself (and at the age of 52 certainly not going to become one)…
Of course that is not at ALL what the SCOTUS is saying and your remark is about the dumbest thing I have…
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Separation of church and state...separation of church and state....separation of church and state.
I love it when the GOP (Grease Our Pockets) channel God's INTENTION, I mean, of course God wants children to NOT have school lunches, or students to NOT get Pell grants, or elderly people to NOT have a medical safety net, or working Americans tonot have workers rights, decent wages or union rights, or poor people to NOT have food or shelter..I know, I know God only likes it when someone's making over $250,000. per year and uses tax loop holes, or is a card carrying corporation paying no taxes at all. So saith the Lord.
Richard, you've been listening to too much Rush Limbaugh.
Well, we need a president and not a spokes person that utters words. Especially when it comes to saying , God Bless America.
dick m: geez dude, you've been into the communion wine in a BIG way, haven't you?
politicians use "god" far too much! thank god (lol) we have an athiest PM here :D
and Donald: also add to your list (my favourite quote from Stephen King) Jesus h. christ on a rockinghorse!
Hey guys, Richard M. is obviousl;y just a card-carrying troll planted in Care.2 to bash the Democratic Party and our President (just joined today). Go back where you came from, Richard & drink another glass of stupid.
BO or your President is NOT a CHRISTIAN But a card carrying muslim who is for the destruction of ISRAEL. He move against GOD as often as he can without respect for the American People or America's history. You all deserve the rat BO who wants to remove GOD from America.
All these nitwit republicans, and the one democrat, have apparently omitted God in their day to day lives by advocating elimination of financial assistance to elderly, impoverished and disabled people while pressing for huge tax cuts for the corporate and wealthy elite! How incredibly hypocritical of them.
A person that orders the murder of another person should not be allowed to use the word God, and even less the title of "Peace Nobel Prize winner"...
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