Posted on 02/01/2018 8:40:50 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson relayed a defiant message to the atheist groups attacking him for attending a Bible study at the White House.
“I will not stop being a Christian while in service to this country.”
The conflict began after reports surfaced, detailing the weekly meeting of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet Secretaries for Bible study.
Carson regularly attends this meeting along with Attorney General Jeff Sessions, CIA Director Mike Pompeo, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and Energy Secretary Rick Perry, according to CBN News.
The atheist group, Freedom From Religion Foundation, and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a left wing advocacy group founded by David Brock, are now suing HUD and Carson for not reimbursing them for the Freedom Of Information Act requests through which information on the Bible studies were discovered.
The FOIA requests sought to see if government resources had been spent to fund the Bible study and to see if Trump administration staff are being pressured into attendance. For every FOIA there is a standard fee if the information requested is not in the public interest or related to the agencies operations. HUD charged FFRF and CREW a fee for the information they requested and the groups sued in return.
The lawsuit claimed that HUD charged for the FIOA because the “documents is likely to cast the agency or HUD Secretary Ben Carson in a negative light.”
Ben Carson weighed in himself on the lawsuit in a Wednesday Facebook post, denying any wrongdoing and declaring defiantly:
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
I always kindly ask SDA’s to go and read Galatians and then report what exactly Paul said about the Sabbath for salvation.
Hey, atheist groups, when Dr. Carson is REQUIRED to attend a Bible study, get back to us, ok?
Dr. Carson is a shining example for each person of the very spirit that motivated those believers of 1776 to make freedom of conscience, as it pertains to religious belief and practice, an acknowledged and protected prong of the Bill of Rights.
Those who, like Hillary Clinton, believe that they can declare their fellow citizens as "unredeemable" because they disagree with Progressive ideology and Hillary, politically, may have missed the point of Jesus' life, death and resurrection.
It was OK when Hillary did it because she was just pandering. :-)
“See, even sleepy Sessions is there. Why isn’t he out jailing Hillary? /s”
Sessions is there trying to find some inspiration on how NOT TO BE AN EFFECTIVE ATTORNEY GENERAL AND TO RECUSE HIMSELF.
So they want government resources to cover their bill for a fishing expedition to see if government resources were used to fund something - gathering to read excerpts from a book- that obviously does not require government resources to do? What did they expect to find? That taxpayers might have funded coffee and donuts?
Finally! A cause I can really get behind!
“I will not stop being a Christian while in service to this country.”
Good answer.
More pithy...FU.
Actually, they have an issue with Jesus, the author of Salvation. Those who follow Him and especially those who overtly express their faith anathema to Demonrats.
>>>Hey, let’s hope and pray that the Bible Study will do him some good.<<<
Yes, let’s do. Hopefully not taught from SDA literature but the old King James Version . . . with an emphasis toward Ephesians 2:8, 9.
“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.”
There were plenty of them not that any one who has been to school in the last 50 years would know.
The first printing of the Bible by Congress was printed and recommended for use in the schools to teach reading.
What’s good for the Muslim in the WH is good for the Christian!
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