Religious conservatives see an escalating war with the Obama White House. One Catholic bishop called it "the most secularist administration in history." Quote from, Has Obama Waged A War On Religion? by BARBARA BRADLEY HAGERTY (NPR website, 1.8.2012)
In my reasoned opinion, Obama is not attempting to limit religious freedom. He is protecting our right for freedom of ALL choices (religion being one of them) against legislation that seeks to impose "moral" doctrines with revisions to the US Constitution. Religious conservatives are attempting to use disinformation and propaganda to politicize and obfuscate historical facts.
FACT: The Declaration of Independence and US Constitution are both secular documents.
The most secularist administrations were the first five: Washington (an Independent), Adams (Federalist), and Jefferson, Madison, Monroe (all Democrat-Republican party) as they INVENTED it. Most of our Founding Fathers were deeply religious (and many were ministers) and they saw the wisdom of the separation of church and state because of history.
Now conservative evangelistic politicians (Catholics included) are attempting to reform our separation of church and state much same way Islamic fundamentalist extremists like the Ayatollah Khomieni did in Iran in 1979. Obama is protecting our secularist tradition from the current radical fundamentalism of the Christian Right.
Obama is protecting our freedoms and our secular tradition which provides civil liberties for ALL and preserves choice and offers options for those choices. One does not have to choose use contraception, but our constitution guarantees we can choose to, or not.
While our president and like-minded lawmakers maintain the separation of church and state in a growing atmosphere of religious extremism, unfortunately, the conservative religious right tries to label Obama as an Islamist, or unpatriotic, or a socialist, all of which he plainly is not. It is all propaganda and fear tactics of political and fundamentalist zealots.
Click below to read the article:
http://www.npr.org/2012/01/08/144835720/has-obama-waged-a-war-on-religion
In my reasoned opinion, Obama is not attempting to limit religious freedom. He is protecting our right for freedom of ALL choices (religion being one of them) against legislation that seeks to impose "moral" doctrines with revisions to the US Constitution. Religious conservatives are attempting to use disinformation and propaganda to politicize and obfuscate historical facts.
FACT: The Declaration of Independence and US Constitution are both secular documents.
The most secularist administrations were the first five: Washington (an Independent), Adams (Federalist), and Jefferson, Madison, Monroe (all Democrat-Republican party) as they INVENTED it. Most of our Founding Fathers were deeply religious (and many were ministers) and they saw the wisdom of the separation of church and state because of history.
Now conservative evangelistic politicians (Catholics included) are attempting to reform our separation of church and state much same way Islamic fundamentalist extremists like the Ayatollah Khomieni did in Iran in 1979. Obama is protecting our secularist tradition from the current radical fundamentalism of the Christian Right.
Obama is protecting our freedoms and our secular tradition which provides civil liberties for ALL and preserves choice and offers options for those choices. One does not have to choose use contraception, but our constitution guarantees we can choose to, or not.
While our president and like-minded lawmakers maintain the separation of church and state in a growing atmosphere of religious extremism, unfortunately, the conservative religious right tries to label Obama as an Islamist, or unpatriotic, or a socialist, all of which he plainly is not. It is all propaganda and fear tactics of political and fundamentalist zealots.
Click below to read the article:
http://www.npr.org/2012/01/08/144835720/has-obama-waged-a-war-on-religion
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