Obama’s list of nearly a hundred laws, motions, and actions against people of Faith.

Do you think obama being in office is hurtful or helpful for Christians

  • yes

    Votes: 7 25.0%
  • no

    Votes: 15 53.6%
  • not sure

    Votes: 6 21.4%

  • Total voters
    28
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Obama’s list of nearly a hundred laws, motions, and actions against people of Faith.(footnotes updated on original source site)


"Acts of hostility toward people of Biblical faith:

The annual White House Christmas cards,

rather than focusing on Christmas or faith, instead highlight things such as

the family dogs. And the White House Christmas tree ornaments include

figures such as Mao TseTung

and a drag queen. [1]



September 2015 – For White House and State Department dinners, the

president deliberately invites guests that he knows will be offensive to the

Pope and who openly opposed his message, but he and the State

Department very carefully avoid inviting guests that oppose or would

offended the dictators of countries such as Cuba and China. [2]



June 2013 – The Obama Department of Justice defunds a Young Marines

chapter in Louisiana because their oath mentioned God, and another

youth program because it permits a voluntary studentled

prayer. [3]



February 2013 – The Obama Administration announces that the rights of

religious conscience for individuals will not be protected under the

Affordable Care Act. [4]



January 2013 – Pastor Louie Giglio is pressured to remove himself from

praying at the inauguration after it is discovered he once preached a

sermon supporting the Biblical definition of marriage.[5]


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. [6]


January 2012 – The Obama administration argues that the First

Amendment provides no protection for churches and synagogues in hiring

their pastors and rabbis. [7]


December 2011 – The Obama administration denigrates other countries'

religious beliefs as an obstacle to radical homosexual rights. [8]


November 2011 – President Obama opposes inclusion of President Franklin

Roosevelt’s famous DDay

Prayer in the WWII Memorial. [9]


November 2011 – Unlike previous presidents, Obama studiously avoids

any religious references in his Thanksgiving speech. [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]


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. [12]


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. [13]


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 reerected

as ordered by the

Court. [14]


November 2010 – Obama misquotes the National Motto, saying it is “E

pluribus unum” rather than “In God We Trust” as established by federal

law. [15]

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. [16]


May 2009 – Obama declines to host services for the National Prayer Day (a

day established by federal law) at the White House. [17]


April 2009 – When speaking at Georgetown University, Obama orders that

a monogram symbolizing Jesus' name be covered when he is making his

speech. [18]


April 2009 – In a deliberate act of disrespect, Obama nominated three proabortion

ambassadors to the Vatican; of course, the prolife

Vatican

rejected all three. [19]


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. [20]


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.” [21]


2. Acts of hostility from the Obamaled

military toward people of Biblical

faith:

February 2016 After

a complaint was received, a Bible was removed from

a display inside a Veterans Clinic.[22]


March 2015 A

decorated Navy chaplain was prohibited from fulfilling his

duty of comforting the family (or any member of the unit) after the loss of

a sailor because it was feared that he would say something about faith and

God. He was even banned from the base on the day of the sailor's

memorial service. [23]


March 2015 A

highly decorated Navy SEAL chaplain was relieved of duty

for providing counseling that contained religious views on things such as

faith, marriage, and sexuality. [24]


June 2014 Official

U. S. government personnel, both civilian and military,

in Bahrain (a small Arabic nation near Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Iran) must

wear clothing that facilitates the religious observance of the Islamic holy

month of Ramadan. [25]


March 2014 Maxell

Air Force Base suddenly bans Gideons from handing

out Bibles to willing recruits, a practice that had been occurring for years

previously. [26]


December 2013 A

naval facility required that two nativity scenes scenes

depicting the event that caused Christmas to be declared a national

federal holiday be

removed from the base dining hall and be confined to

the base chapel, thus disallowing the open public acknowledgment of this

national federal holiday. [27]


December 2013 An

Air Force base that allowed various public displays

ordered the removal of one simply because it contained religious content.

[28]


October 2013 – A counterintelligence

briefing at Fort Hood tells soldiers

that evangelical Christians are a threat to Americans and that for a soldier

to donate to such a group “was punishable under military regulations.”

[29]


October 2013 – Catholic priests hired to serve as military chaplains are

prohibited from performing Mass services at base chapels during the

government financial shutdown. When they offered to freely do Mass for

soldiers, without regard to whether or not the chaplains were receiving

pay, they are still denied permission to do so. [30]


October 2013 The

Air Force Academy, in response to a complaint from

Mikey Weinstein's Military Religious Freedom Foundation, makes "so help

me God" optional in cadets' honor oath. [31]


August 2013 A

Department of Defense military training manual teaches

soldiers that people who talk about "individual liberties, states' rights, and

how to make the world a better place" are "extremists." It also lists the

Founding Fathers those

"colonists who sought to free themselves from

British rule" as

examples of those involved in "extremist ideologies and

movements." [32]


August 2013 A

Senior Master Sergeant was removed from his position

and reassigned because he told his openly lesbian squadron commander

that she should not punish a staff sergeant who expressed his views in

favor of traditional marriage. [33]


August 2013 The

military does not provide heterosexual couples specific

paid leave to travel to a state just for the purpose of being married, but it

did extend these benefits to homosexual couples who want to marry, thus

giving them preferential treatment not available to heterosexuals. [34]


August 2013 The

Air Force, in the midst of having launched a series of

attacks against those expressing traditional religious or moral views,

invited a drag queen group to perform at a base. [35]


July 2013 When

an Air Force sergeant with years of military service

questioned a samesex

marriage ceremony performed at the Air Force

Academy's chapel, he received a letter of reprimand telling him that if he

disagreed, he needed to get out of the military. His current sixyear

reenlistment was then reduced to only oneyear,

with the notification that

he "be prepared to retire at the end of this year." [36]


July 2013 An

Air Force chaplain who posted a website article on the

importance of faith and the origin of the phrase "There are no atheists in

foxholes" was officially ordered to remove his post because some were

offended by the use of that famous World War II phrase.[37]


June 2013 The

U. S. Air Force, in consultation with the Pentagon,

removed an inspirational painting that for years has been hanging at

Mountain Home Air Force Base because its title was "Blessed Are The

Peacemakers" a

phrase from Matthew 5:9 in the Bible. [38]


June 2013 – The Obama administration “strongly objects” to a Defense

Authorization amendment to protect the constitutionallyguaranteed

religious rights of soldiers and chaplains, claiming that it would have an

“adverse effect on good order, discipline, morale, and mission

accomplishment.” [39]


June 2013 – At a joint base in New Jersey, a video was made, based on a

Super Bowl commercial, to honor First Sergeants. It stated: “On the eighth

day, God looked down on His creation and said, ‘I need someone who will

take care of the Airmen.’ So God created a First Sergeant.” Because the

video mentioned the word “God,” the Air Force required that it be taken

down. [40]


June 2013 – An Army Master Sergeant is reprimanded, threatened with

judicial action, and given a bad efficiency report, being told he was “no

longer a team player,” because he voiced his support of traditional

marriage at his own promotion party. [41]


May 2013 The

Pentagon announces that "Air Force members are free to

express their personal religious beliefs as long as it does not make others

uncomfortable. "Proselytizing (inducing someone to convert to one's faith)

goes over that line," [42] affirming if a sharing of faith makes someone

feel uncomfortable that it could be a courtmarital

offense [43] the

military equivalent of a civil felony.


May 2013 An

Air Force officer was actually made to remove a personal

Bible from his own desk because it "might" appear that he was condoning

the particular religion to which he belonged. [44]


April 2013 – Officials briefing U.S. Army soldiers placed "Evangelical

Christianity" and "Catholicism" in a list that also included AlQaeda,

Muslim

Brotherhood, and Hamas as examples of "religious extremism." [45]


April 2013 – The U.S. Army directs troops to scratch off and paint over tiny

Scripture verse references that for decades had been forged into weapon

scopes. [46]


April 2013 The

Air Force creates a "religious tolerance" policy but consults

only a militant atheist group to do so a

group whose leader has described

military personnel who are religious as 'spiritual rapists' and 'human

monsters' [47] and who also says that soldiers who proselytize are guilty of

treason and sedition and should be punished to hold back a "tidal wave of

fundamentalists." [48]


January 2013 – President Obama announced his opposition to a provision

in the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act protecting the rights of

conscience for military chaplains. [49]


June 2012 – Bibles for the American military have been printed in every

conflict since the American Revolution, but the Obama Administration

revokes the longstanding

U. S. policy of allowing military service emblems

to be placed on those military Bibles. [50]


May 2012 – The Obama administration opposed legislation to protect the

rights of conscience for military chaplains who do not wish to perform

samesex

marriages in violation of their stronglyheld

religious beliefs. [51]


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. [52]


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. [53]


February 2012 – The Air Force removes “God” from the patch of Rapid

Capabilities Office (the word on the patch was in Latin: Dei). [54]


February 2012 – The Army ordered Catholic chaplains not to read a letter

to parishioners that their archbishop asked them to read. [55]


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. [56]

November 2011 – President Obama opposes inclusion of President Franklin

Roosevelt’s famous DDay

Prayer in the WWII Memorial. [57]


November 2011 – Even while restricting and disapprobating Christian

religious expressions, the Air Force Academy pays $80,000 to add a

Stonehengelike

worship center for pagans, druids, witches and Wiccans at

the Air Force Academy. [58]


September 2011 – Air Force Chief of Staff prohibits commanders from

notifying airmen of programs and services available to them from

chaplains. [59]


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.” [60]


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 now, America).

[61]


June 2011 – The Department of Veterans Affairs forbids references to God

and Jesus during burial ceremonies at Houston National Cemetery. [62]


January 2010 – Because of "concerns" raised by the Department of

Defense, tiny Bible verse references that had appeared for decades on

scopes and gunsights were removed. [63]


The administration attempts to pick opponents for court

cases dealing with Obamacare contraception mandate. [64]

March 2014 The

Obama administration seeks funding for every type of

sexeducation

except

that which reflects traditional moral values. [65]


August 2013 Nonprofit

charitable hospitals, especially faithbased

ones,

will face large fines or lose their taxexempt

status if they don't comply

with new strangling paperwork requirements related to giving free

treatment to poor clients who do not have Obamacare insurance coverage.

[66] Ironically, the first hospital in America was founded as a charitable

institution in 1751 by Benjamin Franklin, and its logo was the Good

Samaritan, with Luke 10:35 inscribed below him: "Take care of him, and I

will repay thee," being designed specifically to offer free medical care to the

poor. [67] Benjamin Franklin's hospital would likely be fined unless he

placed more resources and funds into paperwork rather than helping the

poor under the new faithhostile

policy of the Obama administration.

August 2013 USAID,

a federal government agency, shut down a

conference in South Korea the night before it was scheduled to take place

because some of the presentations were not proabortion

but instead

presented information on abortion complications, including the problems of

"preterm births, mental health issues, and maternal mortality" among

women giving birth who had previous abortions. [68]


June 2013 – The Obama Administration finalizes requirements that under

the Obamacare insurance program, employers must make available

abortioncausing

drugs, regardless of the religious conscience objections of

many employers and even despite the directive of several federal courts to

protect the religious conscience of employers. [69]


April 2013 – The United States Agency for Internal Development (USAID),

an official foreign policy agency of the U.S. government, begins a program

to train homosexual activists in various countries around the world to

overturn traditional marriage and antisodomy

laws, targeting first those

countries with strong Catholic influences, including Ecuador, Honduras,

and Guatemala. [70]


December 2012 – Despite having campaigned to recognize Jerusalem as

Israel's capital, President Obama once again suspends the provisions of the

Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 which requires the United States to

recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and to move the American

Embassy there. [71]


July 2012 The

Pentagon, for the first time, allows service members to

wear their uniforms while marching in a parade specifically,

a gay pride

parade in San Diego. [72]


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 antiabortion.

[73]


September 2011 – The Pentagon directs that military chaplains may

perform samesex

marriages at military facilities in violation of the federal

Defense of Marriage Act. [74]


July 2011 – Obama allows homosexuals to serve openly in the military,

reversing a policy originally instituted by George Washington in March

1778. [75]


March 2011 – The Obama administration refuses to investigate videos

showing Planned Parenthood helping alleged sex traffickers get abortions

for victimized underage girls. [76]


February 2011 – Obama directs the Justice Department to stop defending

the federal Defense of Marriage Act. [77]


September 2010 – The Obama administration tells researchers to ignore a

judge’s decision striking down federal funding for embryonic stem cell

research. [78]


August 2010 – The Obama administration Cuts funding for 176 abstinence

education programs. [79]


July 2010 – The Obama administration uses federal funds in violation of

federal law to get Kenya to change its constitution to include abortion. [80]


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.” [81]


July 2009 – The Obama administration illegally extends federal benefits to

samesex

partners of Foreign Service and Executive Branch employees, in

direction violation of the federal Defense of Marriage Act. [82]


May 2009 – The White House budget eliminates all funding for abstinenceonly

education and replaces it with “comprehensive” sexual education,

repeatedly proven to increase teen pregnancies and abortions. [83] He

continues the deletion in subsequent budgets. [84]


May 2009 – Obama officials assemble a terrorism dictionary calling prolife

advocates violent and charging that they use racism in their “criminal”

activities. [85]


March 2009 – The Obama administration shut out prolife

groups from

attending a White Housesponsored

health care summit. [86]

March 2009 – Obama orders taxpayer funding of embryonic stem cell

research. [87]


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.

[88]


January 2009 – Obama lifts restrictions on U.S. government funding for

groups that provide abortion services or counseling abroad, forcing

taxpayers to fund proabortion

groups that either promote or perform

abortions in other nations. [89]


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. [90]"

original source, and more extensive lists here:
http://www.wallbuilders.com/libissuesarticles.asp?id=106938


Note that you can't say that the government is separate from christianity....because

why does he support islam? (you can make whatever rule you want but you have to have all parties involved)

:
4. Acts of preferentialism for Islam:

April September

2015 The

administration negotiates a deal to stop

economic sanctions of Iran because of nuclear power development, despite

the warnings and concern of Israel. [91]


February 2012 – The Obama administration makes effulgent apologies for

Korans being burned by the U. S. military, [88] but when Bibles were

burned by the military, numerous reasons were offered why it was the

right thing to do. [93]

October 2011 – Obama’s Muslim advisers block Middle Eastern Christians’

access to the White House. [94]

August 2010 – Obama speaks with great praise of Islam and

condescendingly of Christianity. [95]

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. [96]

April 2010 – Christian leader Franklin Graham is disinvited from the

Pentagon’s National Day of Prayer Event because of complaints from the

Muslim community. [97]

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. [98]

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. [99]

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
 
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This is what I am curious about:

Do any of Obama's actions prevented a person of faith from:

-following the religion of their choice
-attending the church of their choice
-allowing their church to choose members as they wish
-allowing church's to choose who they marry
-allowing parents to teach their children the religion of their choosing
-allow people, not to associate with people of other religious affiliations in their private lives
 
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The poll is very poorly worded because a "yes" could be interpreted as either for or against Obama's actions or both. Of course I realize that the intent is to put down Obama.
 
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The annual White House Christmas cards, rather than focusing on Christmas or faith, instead highlight things such as the family dogs.

We must be respectful of cultural diversity. Not all of us eat turkey for the holidays.
 
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Obama’s list of nearly a hundred laws, motions, and actions against people of Faith.


"Acts of hostility toward people of Biblical faith:

The annual White House Christmas cards,

rather than focusing on Christmas or faith, instead highlight things such as

the family dogs. And the White House Christmas tree ornaments include

figures such as Mao TseTung

and a drag queen. [1]



September 2015 – For White House and State Department dinners, the

president deliberately invites guests that he knows will be offensive to the

Pope and who openly opposed his message, but he and the State

Department very carefully avoid inviting guests that oppose or would

offended the dictators of countries such as Cuba and China. [2]



June 2013 – The Obama Department of Justice defunds a Young Marines

chapter in Louisiana because their oath mentioned God, and another

youth program because it permits a voluntary studentled

prayer. [3]



February 2013 – The Obama Administration announces that the rights of

religious conscience for individuals will not be protected under the

Affordable Care Act. [4]



January 2013 – Pastor Louie Giglio is pressured to remove himself from

praying at the inauguration after it is discovered he once preached a

sermon supporting the Biblical definition of marriage.[5]


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. [6]


January 2012 – The Obama administration argues that the First

Amendment provides no protection for churches and synagogues in hiring

their pastors and rabbis. [7]


December 2011 – The Obama administration denigrates other countries'

religious beliefs as an obstacle to radical homosexual rights. [8]


November 2011 – President Obama opposes inclusion of President Franklin

Roosevelt’s famous DDay

Prayer in the WWII Memorial. [9]


November 2011 – Unlike previous presidents, Obama studiously avoids

any religious references in his Thanksgiving speech. [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]


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. [12]


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. [13]


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 reerected

as ordered by the

Court. [14]


November 2010 – Obama misquotes the National Motto, saying it is “E

pluribus unum” rather than “In God We Trust” as established by federal

law. [15]

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. [16]


May 2009 – Obama declines to host services for the National Prayer Day (a

day established by federal law) at the White House. [17]


April 2009 – When speaking at Georgetown University, Obama orders that

a monogram symbolizing Jesus' name be covered when he is making his

speech. [18]


April 2009 – In a deliberate act of disrespect, Obama nominated three proabortion

ambassadors to the Vatican; of course, the prolife

Vatican

rejected all three. [19]


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. [20]


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.” [21]


2. Acts of hostility from the Obamaled

military toward people of Biblical

faith:

February 2016 After

a complaint was received, a Bible was removed from

a display inside a Veterans Clinic.[22]


March 2015 A

decorated Navy chaplain was prohibited from fulfilling his

duty of comforting the family (or any member of the unit) after the loss of

a sailor because it was feared that he would say something about faith and

God. He was even banned from the base on the day of the sailor's

memorial service. [23]


March 2015 A

highly decorated Navy SEAL chaplain was relieved of duty

for providing counseling that contained religious views on things such as

faith, marriage, and sexuality. [24]


June 2014 Official

U. S. government personnel, both civilian and military,

in Bahrain (a small Arabic nation near Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Iran) must

wear clothing that facilitates the religious observance of the Islamic holy

month of Ramadan. [25]


March 2014 Maxell

Air Force Base suddenly bans Gideons from handing

out Bibles to willing recruits, a practice that had been occurring for years

previously. [26]


December 2013 A

naval facility required that two nativity scenes scenes

depicting the event that caused Christmas to be declared a national

federal holiday be

removed from the base dining hall and be confined to

the base chapel, thus disallowing the open public acknowledgment of this

national federal holiday. [27]


December 2013 An

Air Force base that allowed various public displays

ordered the removal of one simply because it contained religious content.

[28]


October 2013 – A counterintelligence

briefing at Fort Hood tells soldiers

that evangelical Christians are a threat to Americans and that for a soldier

to donate to such a group “was punishable under military regulations.”

[29]


October 2013 – Catholic priests hired to serve as military chaplains are

prohibited from performing Mass services at base chapels during the

government financial shutdown. When they offered to freely do Mass for

soldiers, without regard to whether or not the chaplains were receiving

pay, they are still denied permission to do so. [30]


October 2013 The

Air Force Academy, in response to a complaint from

Mikey Weinstein's Military Religious Freedom Foundation, makes "so help

me God" optional in cadets' honor oath. [31]


August 2013 A

Department of Defense military training manual teaches

soldiers that people who talk about "individual liberties, states' rights, and

how to make the world a better place" are "extremists." It also lists the

Founding Fathers those

"colonists who sought to free themselves from

British rule" as

examples of those involved in "extremist ideologies and

movements." [32]


August 2013 A

Senior Master Sergeant was removed from his position

and reassigned because he told his openly lesbian squadron commander

that she should not punish a staff sergeant who expressed his views in

favor of traditional marriage. [33]


August 2013 The

military does not provide heterosexual couples specific

paid leave to travel to a state just for the purpose of being married, but it

did extend these benefits to homosexual couples who want to marry, thus

giving them preferential treatment not available to heterosexuals. [34]


August 2013 The

Air Force, in the midst of having launched a series of

attacks against those expressing traditional religious or moral views,

invited a drag queen group to perform at a base. [35]


July 2013 When

an Air Force sergeant with years of military service

questioned a samesex

marriage ceremony performed at the Air Force

Academy's chapel, he received a letter of reprimand telling him that if he

disagreed, he needed to get out of the military. His current sixyear

reenlistment was then reduced to only oneyear,

with the notification that

he "be prepared to retire at the end of this year." [36]


July 2013 An

Air Force chaplain who posted a website article on the

importance of faith and the origin of the phrase "There are no atheists in

foxholes" was officially ordered to remove his post because some were

offended by the use of that famous World War II phrase.[37]


June 2013 The

U. S. Air Force, in consultation with the Pentagon,

removed an inspirational painting that for years has been hanging at

Mountain Home Air Force Base because its title was "Blessed Are The

Peacemakers" a

phrase from Matthew 5:9 in the Bible. [38]


June 2013 – The Obama administration “strongly objects” to a Defense

Authorization amendment to protect the constitutionallyguaranteed

religious rights of soldiers and chaplains, claiming that it would have an

“adverse effect on good order, discipline, morale, and mission

accomplishment.” [39]


June 2013 – At a joint base in New Jersey, a video was made, based on a

Super Bowl commercial, to honor First Sergeants. It stated: “On the eighth

day, God looked down on His creation and said, ‘I need someone who will

take care of the Airmen.’ So God created a First Sergeant.” Because the

video mentioned the word “God,” the Air Force required that it be taken

down. [40]


June 2013 – An Army Master Sergeant is reprimanded, threatened with

judicial action, and given a bad efficiency report, being told he was “no

longer a team player,” because he voiced his support of traditional

marriage at his own promotion party. [41]


May 2013 The

Pentagon announces that "Air Force members are free to

express their personal religious beliefs as long as it does not make others

uncomfortable. "Proselytizing (inducing someone to convert to one's faith)

goes over that line," [42] affirming if a sharing of faith makes someone

feel uncomfortable that it could be a courtmarital

offense [43] the

military equivalent of a civil felony.


May 2013 An

Air Force officer was actually made to remove a personal

Bible from his own desk because it "might" appear that he was condoning

the particular religion to which he belonged. [44]


April 2013 – Officials briefing U.S. Army soldiers placed "Evangelical

Christianity" and "Catholicism" in a list that also included AlQaeda,

Muslim

Brotherhood, and Hamas as examples of "religious extremism." [45]


April 2013 – The U.S. Army directs troops to scratch off and paint over tiny

Scripture verse references that for decades had been forged into weapon

scopes. [46]


April 2013 The

Air Force creates a "religious tolerance" policy but consults

only a militant atheist group to do so a

group whose leader has described

military personnel who are religious as 'spiritual rapists' and 'human

monsters' [47] and who also says that soldiers who proselytize are guilty of

treason and sedition and should be punished to hold back a "tidal wave of

fundamentalists." [48]


January 2013 – President Obama announced his opposition to a provision

in the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act protecting the rights of

conscience for military chaplains. [49]


June 2012 – Bibles for the American military have been printed in every

conflict since the American Revolution, but the Obama Administration

revokes the longstanding

U. S. policy of allowing military service emblems

to be placed on those military Bibles. [50]


May 2012 – The Obama administration opposed legislation to protect the

rights of conscience for military chaplains who do not wish to perform

samesex

marriages in violation of their stronglyheld

religious beliefs. [51]


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. [52]


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. [53]


February 2012 – The Air Force removes “God” from the patch of Rapid

Capabilities Office (the word on the patch was in Latin: Dei). [54]


February 2012 – The Army ordered Catholic chaplains not to read a letter

to parishioners that their archbishop asked them to read. [55]


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. [56]

November 2011 – President Obama opposes inclusion of President Franklin

Roosevelt’s famous DDay

Prayer in the WWII Memorial. [57]


November 2011 – Even while restricting and disapprobating Christian

religious expressions, the Air Force Academy pays $80,000 to add a

Stonehengelike

worship center for pagans, druids, witches and Wiccans at

the Air Force Academy. [58]


September 2011 – Air Force Chief of Staff prohibits commanders from

notifying airmen of programs and services available to them from

chaplains. [59]


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.” [60]


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 now, America).

[61]


June 2011 – The Department of Veterans Affairs forbids references to God

and Jesus during burial ceremonies at Houston National Cemetery. [62]


January 2010 – Because of "concerns" raised by the Department of

Defense, tiny Bible verse references that had appeared for decades on

scopes and gunsights were removed. [63]


The administration attempts to pick opponents for court

cases dealing with Obamacare contraception mandate. [64]

March 2014 The

Obama administration seeks funding for every type of

sexeducation

except

that which reflects traditional moral values. [65]


August 2013 Nonprofit

charitable hospitals, especially faithbased

ones,

will face large fines or lose their taxexempt

status if they don't comply

with new strangling paperwork requirements related to giving free

treatment to poor clients who do not have Obamacare insurance coverage.

[66] Ironically, the first hospital in America was founded as a charitable

institution in 1751 by Benjamin Franklin, and its logo was the Good

Samaritan, with Luke 10:35 inscribed below him: "Take care of him, and I

will repay thee," being designed specifically to offer free medical care to the

poor. [67] Benjamin Franklin's hospital would likely be fined unless he

placed more resources and funds into paperwork rather than helping the

poor under the new faithhostile

policy of the Obama administration.

August 2013 USAID,

a federal government agency, shut down a

conference in South Korea the night before it was scheduled to take place

because some of the presentations were not proabortion

but instead

presented information on abortion complications, including the problems of

"preterm births, mental health issues, and maternal mortality" among

women giving birth who had previous abortions. [68]


June 2013 – The Obama Administration finalizes requirements that under

the Obamacare insurance program, employers must make available

abortioncausing

drugs, regardless of the religious conscience objections of

many employers and even despite the directive of several federal courts to

protect the religious conscience of employers. [69]


April 2013 – The United States Agency for Internal Development (USAID),

an official foreign policy agency of the U.S. government, begins a program

to train homosexual activists in various countries around the world to

overturn traditional marriage and antisodomy

laws, targeting first those

countries with strong Catholic influences, including Ecuador, Honduras,

and Guatemala. [70]


December 2012 – Despite having campaigned to recognize Jerusalem as

Israel's capital, President Obama once again suspends the provisions of the

Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 which requires the United States to

recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and to move the American

Embassy there. [71]


July 2012 The

Pentagon, for the first time, allows service members to

wear their uniforms while marching in a parade specifically,

a gay pride

parade in San Diego. [72]


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 antiabortion.

[73]


September 2011 – The Pentagon directs that military chaplains may

perform samesex

marriages at military facilities in violation of the federal

Defense of Marriage Act. [74]


July 2011 – Obama allows homosexuals to serve openly in the military,

reversing a policy originally instituted by George Washington in March

1778. [75]


March 2011 – The Obama administration refuses to investigate videos

showing Planned Parenthood helping alleged sex traffickers get abortions

for victimized underage girls. [76]


February 2011 – Obama directs the Justice Department to stop defending

the federal Defense of Marriage Act. [77]


September 2010 – The Obama administration tells researchers to ignore a

judge’s decision striking down federal funding for embryonic stem cell

research. [78]


August 2010 – The Obama administration Cuts funding for 176 abstinence

education programs. [79]


July 2010 – The Obama administration uses federal funds in violation of

federal law to get Kenya to change its constitution to include abortion. [80]


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.” [81]


July 2009 – The Obama administration illegally extends federal benefits to

samesex

partners of Foreign Service and Executive Branch employees, in

direction violation of the federal Defense of Marriage Act. [82]


May 2009 – The White House budget eliminates all funding for abstinenceonly

education and replaces it with “comprehensive” sexual education,

repeatedly proven to increase teen pregnancies and abortions. [83] He

continues the deletion in subsequent budgets. [84]


May 2009 – Obama officials assemble a terrorism dictionary calling prolife

advocates violent and charging that they use racism in their “criminal”

activities. [85]


March 2009 – The Obama administration shut out prolife

groups from

attending a White Housesponsored

health care summit. [86]

March 2009 – Obama orders taxpayer funding of embryonic stem cell

research. [87]


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.

[88]


January 2009 – Obama lifts restrictions on U.S. government funding for

groups that provide abortion services or counseling abroad, forcing

taxpayers to fund proabortion

groups that either promote or perform

abortions in other nations. [89]


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. [90]"

original source, and more extensive lists here:
http://www.wallbuilders.com/libissuesarticles.asp?id=106938


Note that you can't say that the government is separate from christianity....because

why does he support islam? (you can make whatever rule you want but you have to have all parties involved)

:
4. Acts of preferentialism for Islam:

April September

2015 The

administration negotiates a deal to stop

economic sanctions of Iran because of nuclear power development, despite

the warnings and concern of Israel. [91]


February 2012 – The Obama administration makes effulgent apologies for

Korans being burned by the U. S. military, [88] but when Bibles were

burned by the military, numerous reasons were offered why it was the

right thing to do. [93]

October 2011 – Obama’s Muslim advisers block Middle Eastern Christians’

access to the White House. [94]

August 2010 – Obama speaks with great praise of Islam and

condescendingly of Christianity. [95]

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. [96]

April 2010 – Christian leader Franklin Graham is disinvited from the

Pentagon’s National Day of Prayer Event because of complaints from the

Muslim community. [97]

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. [98]

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. [99]

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
In 6 months none of this is going to matter.
 
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It is there to see. Did you bother to read through it? I did...

Not until about 5 min after tulc did.

I just didn't edit my original post.

But thank you for trying to correct me. Always a pleasure.
 
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You know what the saddest thing about this is? The original list apparently had sources. The OP has decided to excise both any reference to where he got this copypasta from (chances are good this is a violation of online copyright, as copying the entire article cannot reasonably fall under fair use) and the list of sources... But not the citation numbers from the post.

Nicely done, OP. Add those, then maybe we can talk about the list. As is, this is a ridiculous gish gallop with absolutely no backing evidence, and I sincerely hope nobody takes it seriously. If the OP would like to have a serious discussion, perhaps he would care to pick out two or three pertinent examples, and back them up with evidence.
 
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You know what the saddest thing about this is? The original list apparently had sources. The OP has decided to excise both any reference to where he got this copypasta from (chances are good this is a violation of online copyright, as copying the entire article cannot reasonably fall under fair use) and the list of sources... But not the citation numbers from the post.

Nicely done, OP. Add those, then maybe we can talk about the list. As is, this is a ridiculous gish gallop with absolutely no backing evidence, and I sincerely hope nobody takes it seriously. If the OP would like to have a serious discussion, perhaps he would care to pick out two or three pertinent examples, and back them up with evidence.

you already said that the original citation had pages and pages of notes.

why not do your homework?

[in fact the numbers of each bullet, are not my numbers but citation numbers]

all you would have to do is find one questionable and address it.

which you won't
 
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And the White House Christmas tree ornaments include

figures such as Mao Tse

The Christmas tree in question was decorated by the community. The Obamas had no idea what was on it.

Barely started and I'm already seeing falsehoods.
 
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This is what I am curious about:

Do any of Obama's actions prevented a person of faith from:

-following the religion of their choice
-attending the church of their choice
-allowing their church to choose members as they wish
-allowing church's to choose who they marry
-allowing parents to teach their children the religion of their choosing
-allow people, not to associate with people of other religious affiliations in their private lives

well that was not the purpose of the op, was it?

it was specifically worded. "against people of faith."

which encompasses alot.
 
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I eat turkey on only one holiday. Not many "holidays"

but thats just me.
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well that was not the purpose of the op, was it?

it was specifically worded. "against people of faith."

which encompasses alot.

I guess we would need to see examples of people not being able to practice their faith.
 
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