Will they ask to cover up Touchdown Jesus at ND?
Posted on 04/16/2009 12:59:43 PM PDT by kellynla
When President Barack Obama spoke at Georgetown University on April 14, the White House requested that all religious symbols and signage that might appear as a backdrop to where the president was to speak be covered up. Georgetown acceded to the request and made sure that the symbol “IHS,” a monogram of the name Jesus Christ, was not in sight.
Catholic League president Bill Donohue spoke to this issue today:
“The cowardice of Georgetown to stand fast on principle tells us more than we need to know about what is going on there, but the bigger story is the audacity of the Obama administration to ask a religious school to neuter itself before the president speaks there. No bishop who might speak at the White House would ever request that a crucifix be displayed behind him. Moreover, the same church and state fanatics who go nuts every time a polling place is set up in the basement of a Catholic school have been noticeably silent over this incident.
“Obama will be speaking at Notre Dame, and receiving an honorary award, on May 17. Will his advance team ask Notre Dame to scrub the campus clean of religious symbols? Or just the ones that might appear behind the podium? Obama is in enough trouble with Catholics—over his pro-abortion executive orders and appointees, his position on embryonic stem cell research and his war on the conscience rights of healthcare workers—that it seems almost suicidal for his administration to push the envelope one more time. This is getting old fast.”
Contact the White House Press Office at media_affairs@who.eop.gov
The formerly self-proclaimed Catholic university of Georgetown claims to have a Jesuit identity, though these days, craven and cowardly, they are more like those who abandoned Him in the garden. The Jesuits are directly under the supervision of the Pope.
I am but a layman, but I will pray mightily the Lord will move Pope Benedict to exercise his ultimate authority, and restore the good name "Catholic" to both these institutions.
It appears a number of the US Catholic clergy need a good, long stay at some Trappist monastery where they can contemplate to which church they are actually belong and to which Lord they owe allegiance.
Georgetown University heard from this Episcopalian today. Their kowtowing to the Messiah wannabe is disgraceful.
I'm glad you did.
And many bishops have read ND the "riot act."
And I expect the same response for Georgetown.
Thank you! We need all the help we can get. BIG SMILE
More evidence that NObama is Muslim, IMO.
No it isn't. Obama is telling us who he is. No one will have a plausable excuse for not knowing.
and what should I apologize to you for...
you smearing Catholics!
You should apologize for falsely accusing me of anti-Catholic bigotry. I will be happy to discuss our faith via Freepmail, But for now, please remember the commandment, “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor”.
That's RICH, coming from you!
” Reminds me of those Germans who voted for Hitler and after the war claimed not to understand what he was all about.”
YOU are the only one who needs to apologize for comparing Catholics to Nazi sympathizers!
My Catholic father put his ass on the line fighting the Germans, so you can take those Nazi comparisons to Catholics insults and shove ‘em where the sun don't shine...take that thought to Mass with you tomorrow!
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I believe it would be better than a millstone around their necks. I suppose there is a millstone fitting going on right now. It is extremely dangerous for those who have professed to lead children in the Lord’s Way to stray outside their calling. Georgetown will have the Lord’s blessing removed. He will dust off his feet and move on.
I salute your father for his service to our nation. Have a good day!
Will they ask to cover up Touchdown Jesus at ND?
Obama is really not a Christian.
“Anyone who denies my name (says the Lord) I will deny before my Father in heaven.”
And no one here is comparing Catholics to Nazi sympathizers. I do however think Obama is behaving like a national socialist. Check your Freepmail:)
In point of fact, the Church did little to nothing except transfer the pedophile priests, and the flamers in the gay seminaries were likewise known but tolerated.
While I like lawyers as little as any American, the facts are clear. The Church knew it had a problem and swept it under the table.
That translated into “SUE ME” and they were sued.
Oliphant is far from a Constitutionally oriented American, granted. But, his cartoon was spot on, particularly the exchange between the man and his wife in the foreground.
Lest you think I am a Catholic basher, I agree that when one removes the priest, often one gets not paradise on earth, but the witch doctor, instead.
Are you sure your post #59 should be directed to me?
On what basis do you accuse me of analogizing the Catholic Church with the Third Reich?
“On Judgment Day, Obama will burn in the lake of fire and the pits of hell!!!”
Yes, He can!!!!
hehehe!
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