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March 28th, 2024
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larry phillips mugshotGUEST COLUMN, Larry Phillips, Kismet

 

I heard some people didn’t like me calling President Obama a racist. Funny, I don’t remember asking permission to tell the truth. He’s a proven racist – proven multiple times when he interjected himself into racial incidents and was proven wrong by courts, juries and judges.

So get over it, he’s a racist.

Obama also proved he was anti-Christian numerous times. And I won’t even get into the fact he sat in the pews for 23 years in The Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s anti-American church in Chicago. 

Let’s just look at some of Obama’s attacks on Christians under his covert rules of ObamaCare or the EEOC, or the USDA, or the IRS or the National Park Service.

In 2005, a church fired one of its part-time ministers, and she sued under the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Act, claiming discrimination

As the case trudged through the courts through the years, the lower courts said religious institutions were not covered in the EEOC rules.

But Obama disagreed. In fact, the Obama Administration, namely the Justice Department, filed an opposition brief that asserted the ministerial exemption should be severely limited. The case went to the Supreme Court.

The justices, even the lefties, found that federal discrimination laws do not apply to religious organizations’ selection of religious leaders.

Obama was 0 for 1 in this attack on churches at the SCOTUS.

Then the case against the Little Sisters of the Poor came along. Obama’s Administration claimed the federal government “could force” the religious group to provide contraceptive and abortion pills to its employees.

Lower left-wing rulings agreed with Obama and it, too, went before the Supreme Court. The justices sent it back to the lower court.

But, the Supreme Court vacated the lower court ruling holding that the Little Sisters had to facilitate access to contraceptives. It provided a roadmap to solve the problem, which the Little Sisters endorsed. 

As David French wrote online about the case at www.nationalreview.com, “Speaking as a person who’s argued a few cases in courts of appeal – when the court vacates the ruling you’re challenging, that’s a win.”

That’s 0 for 2 against Obama’s attack on Christians at the SCOTUS.

In 2013, the Obama Administration attacked several religious institutions, groups or individuals.

First, a Florida Christian ministry had been providing food to the hungry the past 31 years in Lake City, Fla., without any problems.

But all that changed when they said a government worker showed up to negotiate a new contract. This state agriculture department official told them they would not be allowed to receive USDA food unless they removed portraits of Christ, the Ten Commandments, a banner that read ‘Jesus is Lord’ and stopping giving Bibles to the needy..

When the USDA rules a Christian Service Center has to ban Christ or quit using USDA food to help the poor, that’s religious discrimination.

As writer John Hawkins wrote at townhall.com: “It's well known that the IRS targeted Obama's political enemies in the Tea Party, but the IRS also targeted his Christian enemies in the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.”

It seems while the IRS was illegally targeting conservative organizations, it went after Samaritan’s Purse. The IRS notified the organizations in September that it was conducting a “review” of their activities for tax year 2010.

The IRS actually audited the Grahams twice that year, and Franklin Graham, the president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association didn’t like it.

“While these audits not only wasted taxpayer money, they wasted money contributed by donors for ministry purposes as we had to spend precious resources servicing the IRS agents in our offices,” Graham wrote in the letter, which was shared with POLITICO. “I believe that someone in the administration was targeting and attempting to intimidate us. This is morally wrong and unethical – indeed some would call it ‘un-American.”

Graham said, “I do not believe that the IRS audit of our two organizations last year is a coincidence – or justifiable.”

It’s not just Obama attacking Christians and Christianity, the states and cities took his cues, too. Here are just a few of the headlines that have been detailed by writer Hawkins:

  • • California Christians Found “Not Guilty” of Reading Bible Near Government Offices.

“What do you think the chances are that two Muslims reading the Quran would have been arrested under the same circumstances?” Hawkins asked.

  • Colorado Baker Faces Year In Jail For Refusing To Make Cake For Gay Wedding.
  • Airforce Veteran Faces A Court Martial For Opposing Gay Marriage Under Barack Obama.
  • Government Forces Churches To Get Permits For Baptisms.

That insanity comes via the National Park Service, again, an Obama-ruled department. Seems the park service began a new policy requiring churches that wished to hold baptisms in public waters to apply for a special permit at least 48 hours in advance of the baptism. 

The Christian outcry finally got that rule buried.

  • Florida Professor Demands Student Stomp On Jesus.

The student refused, and the school’s administration went after him with a vengeance, but again, Christians united and got that dropped, as well.

Folks, We have to tear down Obama’s horrible legacies throughout government and so-called “City Hall.” We can no longer tolerate attacks on our religion, and we must fight.

Get involved.

L&T Publisher Earl Watt

 

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