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Obama at Iftar Dinner: Of All Rights We Hold Sacred - Freedom of Religion Comments

President Barack Obama-whose administration is being sued by multiple Catholic dioceses, universities, charities and family-owned businesses for violating their First Amendment right to the free exercise of religion-told a group of Muslims dining at the White House on Friday that freedom of religion is "foremost" among the God-given rights of man and that he intends to defend it both within the United States and abroad. Continue Reading

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  1. marc
    9 months ago

    considering all the lovely comments I've read about our president I've decided to make a post of my own. let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

  2. Bill Sr.
    9 months ago

    Yes, but WHAT religion??
    A look behind the headlines these past few years will show anyone with a clear conscience that a new religion has sprung up among our population. It is not Christian, Jew, Muslim nor any other. It is not out of the Bible or Koran. It is Humanism gone wild. It is not divinely nor intellectually inspired. It speaks not of heaven or hell. It is an out growth of mans pathetic liberal inspired dream of divinizing himself and creating Utopia on Earth.
    This latest Babylonian attempt to be something other than what God created us to be will also ultimately fail. In the meantime it has found great favor with those who cherish privilege without price through a governmentally granted modern day monarchy of sorts as a reward for their rejection of all other religions which in one way or another may oppose their desires to become masters of human life, its behavior, and its future.
    As we well know it is doomed for failure but at the present those who subscribe to its charter of corruption are unfortunately in power in Washington. The majority of Americans, thank God, are unwilling to be controlled by such zealots and we pray the voices of reason and common sense will prevail in November and put an end to this madness.

  3. Rick
    10 months ago

    “The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson

  4. gfgrosek
    10 months ago

    And they will know we are Christians by our love.

  5. Terri K
    10 months ago

    Don't miss his qualifier: "Free to worship..." The man is a master at manipulating language. He lies and lies and lies some more because he doesn't understand the concept of truth.

  6. Judy Claar
    10 months ago

    This speech was too ridiculous for words. Blessings...

  7. rafaelmarie
    10 months ago

    "Obama at Iftar Dinner: Religious Liberty? Really?"

    THIS MAN IS A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR!

    YES, OBAMA BELIEVE THAT THERE SHOULD BE RELIGIOUS LIBERTY, BUT SO LONG IT COINCIDES WITH THE RELIGION OF SATAN!

    CONSIDER YOURSELVES WARNED!!!

  8. debbie
    10 months ago

    I personally am against abortion also but my question is why are you not as equally distraught over the senseless killings of American soldiers and civilians (often babies and mothers) as well? Why do you support the Republicans "war on terror" when all it does is kill innocent people and ignite more hatred toward the United States? You know the saying - what goes around comes around and one day soon all those weapons we have used against other nations will come back at us. It will be time to pay the price. Live by the Sword, die by the Sword. With regards to the insurance mandate, what is all the fuss? No one is forcing anyone to use birth control. And besides, many religions have to put up with government laws their religion doesn't believe in (war for example)...

  9. Jeancatherine
    10 months ago

    debbie

    If I may say the Catholics (as most Christians dont hate him either) here do not hate Obama. They just dont like his politics and that is ok in this country.

  10. Edward Q. Guerrero
    10 months ago

    I wonder if some western intellect has coined the name of a person who poignantly and habitually makes gaffes (social blunders), who purposely and subliminally generates out-off-bound (from zero to low level veracity) thoughts/convictions and/or gives hints of what he is all about? Remembering the 'Joe the plumber' incident! I'm not pointing a finger out towards our POTUS. However, he has been seen doing these gestures during his 2008 candidacy speeches videos, doing slyly so to person(s) whoever displeases him! In the middle east cultures there is a name for this behavior - the term is "taqiya".


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