Catholics and conservative evangelicals have been constant targets for practicing their faith in the public square, as exemplified by the various lawsuits brought against the administration’s actions by Catholic universities, charities and other organizations, and businesses like Hobby Lobby run by Christian owners.
This hostility towards religion has finally drawn criticism from the Vatican. Cardinal Raymond Burke, the head of the highest court of the Vatican, went so far as to say that Obama is waging war on “Christian civilization” by violating religious liberty. Wow.
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Via CNSNews.com:
Cardinal Burke, who heads the Apostolic Signatura, the highest court at the Vatican, said: “It is true that the policies of the president of the United States of America have become progressively more hostile toward Christian civilization. He appears to be a totally secularized man who aggressively promotes anti-life and anti-family policies.”
“Now he [Obama] wants to restrict the exercise of the freedom of religion to freedom of worship; that is, he holds that one is free to act according to his conscience within the confines of his place of worship but that, once the person leaves the place of worship, the government can constrain him to act against his rightly-formed conscience, even in the most serious of moral questions,” said Cardinal Burke.
He continued, “Such policies would have been unimaginable in the United States even 40 years ago. It is true that many faithful Catholics, with strong and clear leadership from their Bishops and priests, are reacting against the ever-growing religious persecution in the U.S.”
“Sadly, one has the impression that a large part of the population is not fully aware of what is taking place,” said the cardinal. “In a democracy, such a lack of awareness is deadly. It leads to the loss of the freedom, which a democratic government exists to protect. It is my hope that more and more of my fellow citizens, as they realize what is happening, will insist on electing leaders who respect the truth of the moral law as it is respected in the founding principles of our nation.”
The Cardinal is exactly right. Obama seeks to conflate freedom of worship with freedom of religion, and use this to his advantage. Freedom of religion extends to all areas of life where religion plays a direct role in individual actions. Freedom of worship is a term used by liberals to suggest that you can worship God privately as you wish, but once you step out into public you only get to practice your faith on THEIR terms.
Subjecting religious people to exorbitant fines for the simple practice of their faith is evil and tyrannical. And yes, it does amount to religious persecution. The secular left will stop at nothing until any Christian influence is completely shut out from the public square. It literally is an all-out war on the Western Christian tradition as we know it.
go here:http://conservativetribune.com/obama-war-on-christians/.
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