Obama to Pope Francis: "We stand with you in defense of religious freedom"

Hot Air ^ | 9/23/2015 | AllahPundit

[NetAddicted]

Via RCP, the balls on this guy to even pay lip service to this subject in front of the Pope. Give me one example of the Obama administration going to the mat to expand religious freedom here or abroad. He fought Hobby Lobby and the Little Sisters of the Poor in court to make them provide contraception as part of their health-care plans notwithstanding their religious objections. He sits by and says nothing when small business owners are sued into oblivion by state AGs when they politely refuse to provide services to gay weddings on grounds that their faith doesn’t allow it. (Actual quote from the clip you’re about to watch: “People everywhere must be able to live out their faith free from fear and free from intimidation.”) He just made a deal with a theocratic Shiite regime that’s persecuting Sunnis in Syria, clearing the way for them to become a nuclear power in 15 years. He’s running a halfhearted war of token airstrikes against ISIS, an even greater persecutor of religious minorities, despite domestic and international clamor for him to do more. What’s the big Obama legacy achievement on religious freedom that warrants him even mentioning this topic? Where’s the evidence that the overwhelmingly secular, statist national Democratic leadership views religious freedom as an important priority at all?

[ronnie raygun]

These so called world leaders have been infected with the socialist liberal progressive cancer that feeds us dribble on imaginary scams like global warming that will redistribute our hard earned money. Islam has the same teachings as chritianity, we must take in refugees, scolds us a on guns when isis is lopping chritain heads off and theres silence, the one ecredible noble prize since giving to the imposter for breathing is now downgraded to a prize from the crackerjacks box, defence of freedom means the infultration of sharia law and islam in America, cair is trying to take out ben carson for speaking the truth

[HiTech RedNeck]

I think evangelism could be a lot stronger than it is. Far be it from me to not, like Paul, be grateful to God that any message at all is being presented; the Lord can arrange for holes to be filled even in the case of what the bible itself calls “selfish motives.”

I hope I can be indulged as having some wisdom of experience with a perspective of over 25 years of faith after even more years of unbelief and watching myself bumble and fumble and fail and agonize because of going after faith in a self centered way, and on the way watch others fall shorter than they can as well. That is an exceedingly hard demon to slay. It takes an industrial strength love to slay it and that can only be had by being willing to absorb it from the Lord. But then it becomes evident that love really is the name of the game. As, ironically, I knew instinctively when a child, but the people I knew who had the most influence on me had harsh, bitter attitudes and that began to prevail on me because I had no Christ to appeal to with my soul.

Maybe I am still am too eager in some areas than I ought to be.

[HiTech RedNeck]

And I submit I have scriptural support for this “pecking order” of love over all other aspects of faith: 1 Cor 13.

This does not, of course, mean that anything that comes down the pike calling itself love in fact IS love. There is some shallow thinking to that effect, but if one keeps calm one can easily counter it by pointing out where the hate, usually vicious, is in such illusions.