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Posted on 11/06/2011 2:31:54 PM PST by Driftwood1
The Obama administration has stepped into another controversy by announcing its opposition to the inclusion of a plaque depicting Franklin Roosevelt's D-Day prayer at the memorial that celebrates his life and presidency.
The proposal to include the prayer is being offered by Rep. Bill Johnson, R-Ohio, and has bipartisan support. It is expected to pass committee, then be passed by the House. Its fate in the Senate is unclear.
The objection was raised by Robert Abbey, the director of the Bureau of Land Management, who claimed such a plaque would "dilute" the memorial's central message and therefore should not be included. What that "central message" is and how a plaque depicting a prayer that President Roosevelt broadcast nationwide while American soldiers were still fighting and dying on the Normandy beaches would dilute it was unclear.
J. Robert Smith, writing for the American Thinker, is pretty sure that the objection is motivated by anti-Christian bigotry on the part of some in the Obama administration. Whether it is or not, Abbey, on behalf of his boss, has dragged the administration he serves into a scandal that was completely unnecessary, but predictable coming from the far left.
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This is an insult to those brave men who fought and died to protect our freedom.
I was in Junior High School on June 6, 1944. Our history teacher, Miss Audrey, came into the room and said “our troops are landing at Normandy. We are going to say a prayer for their safety.”
Try that now in a public school.
Nah, he’s just PRO muslim.
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