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Title: Atheist group rebukes Obama over prayer for Batman shooting victims
Source:
The Examiner
URL Source: http://washingtonexaminer.com/athei ... ooting-victims/article/2502723
Published: Jul 23, 2012
Author: Joel Gehrke
Post Date: 2012-07-23 19:00:51 by redleghunter
Keywords: None
Views: 1906
Comments: 6
“May the Lord bring them comfort and healing in hard days to come,” President Obama said at the end of his speech today, referring to the victims of the Batman shooting in Colorado and their families. By doing so, he “ben[t] the rules” against government establishing a religion, according to the Center for Secular Humanism. “I think it’s a little unfortunate,” CSH director Tom Flynn told The Washington Examiner. “Even in a situation like this, [when] he leads a public prayer to a deity that it pretty recognizably the Christian God, much as you can understand the emotional context of it, he’s still sending to some degree a message of exclusion to other religions who don’t call their god “Lord” and to non-religious Americans.” “By the very act of praying, that’s a message of exclusion,” he continued. “If I’m a public official, I think I’m going to look around in the morning and conclude that, ‘hey, this religion thing is just too hot to handle, I should stay away from it in my official capacity.’” Flynn was sympathetic to the president’s position, though. “I can understand the extraordinary nature of this situation in Colorado and why President Obama might have felt really moved to bend the rules this time, but you really can’t.” Yesterday, Flynn rebuked Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack for saying that he was “praying for rain” at a White House event. “For a Cabinet official to recommend prayer as a solution or call attention to his own devotions may violate the Constitution’s prohibition against establishment of religion,” he said in a statement.
Poster Comment: Leave it to the atheists to bring this up at this time. I am sure the crosses being put up in memory of many of the victims will no doubt turn into a law suit.
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#1. To: redleghunter, *Jack-Booted Thugs* (#0)
Religious k00ks trying to force a theocratic government on us. No, I don't want to join your cult, buzz off!
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
Those atheists are all so touchy feely in times of tragedy that I'm sure they'll let Obama slide on his faux pas.
Let the kooks have their say. After all, you post your retarded kook shit regarding the massacre (Colorado Batman shooting shows obvious signs of being staged ) why can't they?
. Obama should have brought in Bishop Mitt & the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, IMO. Bipartisan.
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
Romney isn't in Government. That might be one slight reason he didn't.
Atheists are incompatible with true American culture.
Center for Secular Humanism
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#2. To: redleghunter (#0)
#3. To: hondo68 (#1)
Say hi to your mom for me.
#4. To: Biff Tannen (#3)
(Edited)
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#5. To: hondo68 (#4)
#6. To: hondo68 (#1)
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