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“The president’s failure to grasp the seriousness of this issue reveals a dangerous presidential blind spot concerning First Amendment constitutional religious free exercise guarantees,” he wrote. “It also highlights the wisdom of our forefathers who bequeathed to us a legislative system that is supposed to pass laws with the consent of the governed through their elected representatives, rather than being governed by executive branch imperial edicts passed down from on high.”

Perfectly stated!

1 posted on 02/10/2012 4:40:24 PM PST by wagglebee
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2 posted on 02/10/2012 4:43:10 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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3 posted on 02/10/2012 4:44:28 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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4 posted on 02/10/2012 4:45:37 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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Well, this Southern Baptist leader “got it” It remains to be seen if the catholics “get it” too.


6 posted on 02/10/2012 4:49:10 PM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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7 posted on 02/10/2012 4:49:10 PM PST by WKB (Anything Obama: "What a revoltin' development this is")
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To: wagglebee
Luke Goodrich of The Becket Fund told CNN this afternoon, “The president is saying, ‘Trust me.’”
8 posted on 02/10/2012 4:55:10 PM PST by rawhide
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To: wagglebee

Part of the hanged man’s letter from “The Oxbow Incident”

“There are some other good men too, only they don’t realize what they’re doing.
They’re the ones I feel sorry for, because it’ll be over for me...
...but they’ll have to go on remembering for the rest of their lives.

A man just can’t take the law into his own hands and hang people...
...without hurting everybody in the world...

...because then he’s not just breaking one law, but all laws.
Law is a lot more than words you put in a book...

...or judges or lawyers or sheriffs you hire to carry it out.
It’s everything people ever have found out about justice...

...and what’s right and wrong.
It’s the very conscience of humanity.

There can’t be any such thing as civilization...
...unless people have a conscience...
...because if people touch God anywhere...
...where is it except through their conscience?”

http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl.t3.3/search/web?fcoid=417&fcop=topnav&fpid=27&q=oxbow+incident+script&ql=


11 posted on 02/10/2012 5:11:57 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: wagglebee

The President has no right to divert our tax dollars to procedures that are against our Christian values. That is why we have elected representatives. Our representatives take into account the values of their constituents. To short circuit this system is unconstitutional and a breach in the President’s oath to uphold the Constitutuion.

Impeachment time, my friends!


12 posted on 02/10/2012 5:16:16 PM PST by jonrick46 (Countdown to 11-06-2012)
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To: wagglebee
“Laundering a Catholic or Christian organization’s money through the insurance company to pay for abortifacients does not suddenly correct the moral sin inflicted by Obama.”

That is a great line and a great description of the "compromising" schemed up by Obama.

Did you see the Krauthammer and Steyn articles? Both are excellent on this issue.

Steyn http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/church-339789-one-catholic.html

Krauthammer http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20120210/COL24/302100024/Krauthammer-conflicting-confusing-Gospel-according-Obama?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|s

15 posted on 02/10/2012 5:26:55 PM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray Continued Victory for our Troops Still in Afghan!)
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Okay, so our Founders “bequeathed to us a legislative system that is supposed to pass laws with the consent of the governed through their elected representatives, rather than being governed by executive branch imperial edicts passed down from on high.”

Can anyone ever take that away with a legalistic shell game of unjust laws? If the Founders are our true governmental authorities, when and where do we begin to ignore the impostors? Rahab the prostitute broke the “law” and lied about the spies to her “authorities” and wound up in the faith Hall of Fame in Hebrews 11:31.

Rahab. The prostitute. HELOOOOOOO?!?!?!

Blind obedience to authority is not Scriptural (general obedience is). Law is a useful gift from God for restraining evil on earth, but when it becomes a tool for codifying evil as good?

I wish more Freeper believers would begin having a conversation on this topic because it’s needed. The fretful, indignant approach ain’t cutting it in this era because the authorities are not listening (thus violating their oaths they took before the Founders and God).


17 posted on 02/10/2012 5:43:12 PM PST by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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"The president’s failure to grasp the seriousness of this issue reveals a dangerous presidential blind spot concerning First Amendment constitutional religious free exercise guarantees,”

I think the author gave obama too much credit in allowing obama's ignorance as an excuse. Obama knew very well he was trashing the Constitution...he simply did not give a damn....he thinks he is a king.

18 posted on 02/10/2012 5:47:47 PM PST by Texas Songwriter (Ia)
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I am so glad to see that Baptists are speaking out against the tyrant! All Christian churches need to be on guard against the muslim tyrant in the White House.

Our representatives in Congress are not protecting us from Obama’s tyranny.


19 posted on 02/10/2012 5:49:08 PM PST by abclily
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To: wagglebee
The president does not fail to grasp anything. He is making a constitution-smashing power grab while the conservative side of our legislative branch and religious leaders make bold announcements. Why is no one mentioning impeachment?
21 posted on 02/10/2012 6:01:01 PM PST by Candymaker (Theobroma- food of the gods)
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To: wagglebee
Everyone is speaking out against this!

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22 posted on 02/10/2012 8:22:57 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: wagglebee

More like a dismissive middle finger.....


23 posted on 02/10/2012 9:56:31 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: wagglebee
.....rather than being governed by executive branch imperial edicts passed down from on high.

The strange thing is that Obama doesn't seem to care whether many are happy with him or not. For some reason, he seems to have passed from someone who feigns to care about the electorate to someone who doesn't.

He either must think that he isn't going to get reelected, so it doesn't matter whether the electorate is happy with him or not, or that he is going to continue no matter what he does, because it isn't up to the electorate anyway. If he thinks that he is an imperial ruler, I wonder why he is so confident that he is. It seems to me, either he is deluded, or acting upon and knows something that we don't.

27 posted on 02/11/2012 8:31:21 PM PST by Bellflower (The LORD is Holy, separated from all sin, perfect, righteous, high and lifted up.)
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