I think you know that much of what you say in your recent press release, "Obama's Trajectory Leads to Tragedy," is lies. This makes you not an idiot, but a fool, for spreading such poison, insulting the majority of Americans who voted for Obama and undermining faith in both the office of the president and our tripartite system of government.
To your claims:
Obama "apologized for America"
Patently untrue. But humbly acknowledging past mistakes is surely the mature—and Christian—thing to do. To read what Obama actually said, check this article: http://nyti.ms/teugS8
An excerpt:
Let’s start with the question of whether Mr. Obama has, in fact, apologized. In a series of speeches at the start of his tenure, the president acknowledged mistakes made by his predecessor, George W. Bush — which of course counts not as apology but as standard political critique — but also some that lay deeper in the past and were more systematic. In Cairo, for example, he admitted that “the United States played a role in the overthrow of a democratically elected Iranian government” — that of Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953. At the United Nations he acknowledged that the United States had “dragged its feet” on climate change.
Do these and similar statements constitute “apologies”? More important, would it be bad if they did? Presidential apologies, or those delivered by senior government officials, are not unprecedented. In a major speech in Cairo in 2005, Condoleezza Rice, then Mr. Bush’s secretary of state, said that “for 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region here in the Middle East — and we achieved neither.” What was she doing if not apologizing on behalf of the United States — and vowing to put an end to a pattern of misguided policy?
Undermining the Family
Supporting same-sex marriage means supporting the right of civil marriage for gay people. It does not mean that any church, anywhere, must perform same-sex marriages or accept such unions as a sacrament. The Democratic party platform makes this explicitly clear. No mainstream Democrat (or any Democrat I have ever heard) has stated they wish to force pastors to do or say anything in regards to gay marriage or civil unions. Your claim otherwise is pure demagoguery and fear-mongering, designed to inspire division and hatred. A fine Christian thing to do!
Godless
As I am sure you are aware, most Democrats—but not all—believe in God, just as most Republicans —but not all—do. Obama, as you are well aware, is a practicing Christian. It is our right as Americans to believe or not believe what we wish. Just as many of the founding fathers held religious views (such as Unitarianism) you, as a conservative Christian, would consider abhorrent, so today there are many millions of Americans who hold views you do not agree with. It is not the job of the government, today any more than in 1782, to endorse or condemn any of those views. It is, in fact, un-American and contrary to the spirit of the Constitution to expect a political party to align itself with any one religious viewpoint. Our country was built on the idea that religion is for the home and the community, not something to be codified in law or trumpeted from a political podium (hundreds of years of bloody European history had taught The Founders a valuable lesson about aligning politics and religious partisanship) .
Whether with gay marriage or a religious political platform, you try to make the argument that Obama wishes to inject an agenda into the private lives of citizens. In fact, it is your agenda that would do just this—forcing government-backed religious ideas into the doctor's office and churches that choose to endorse gay marriage, and delegitimizing as anti-American the practices of Muslims, Hindus and other faiths not following the "God of the Bible." It reminds me of what the Nazis once said about Jews being not "real Germans."
"He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool."
- Proverbs 10:18
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