Obama Censors the Declaration of Independence… Again

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Who does President Barack Obama think he is that he can change the
wording of the Declaration of Independence? Again and again he presumes
to quote the great Declaration while making a significant change: he
omits the word “Creator.” ~ Phyllis Schlafly

Americans know that the Declaration of
Independence proclaims as a matter of fact that they “are endowed by
their Creator with certain unalienable rights.” But when Obama recites
this line, he omits the word “Creator.”

Listen
carefully to how Obama censors that famous line. Here are his own
words: “all men are created equal, that each of us are endowed with
certain inalienable rights.” He doesn’t say who endowed us.

Obama
has done this so often that it can’t be a slip of the tongue or a glitch
of the teleprompter. Changing the words of the Declaration of
Independence is part of Obama’s determination to remove everything
religious and every mention of God from every aspect of our public life
in order to fundamentally transform us from “one nation under God” into
one nation under the Federal Government, especially the executive
branch, with no higher power recognized.

On this Fourth of July, we should remind ourselves that the great Declaration of Independence
is not only the proclamation of our independence and sovereignty, but
is also the official affirmation of our belief and faith in God. The
Declaration asserts God’s existence as a “self-evident” truth, and
states that the purpose of government is to secure our God-given
unalienable individual rights.

The Declaration contains five
references to God — God as our Creator, God as supreme Lawmaker, God as
the Source of all rights, God as the world’s supreme Judge, and God as
our Protector.

Shortly before we started hearing fireworks for
this year’s Fourth of July, the movie “For Greater Glory” opened in
local theaters. It is a compelling dramatization of the Mexican
government’s persecution of Christians from 1926 to 1929, a bloody piece
of history that has hitherto been ignored by historians and filmmakers.

This
wasn’t in some faraway Muslim country; it was in our next-door
neighbor. It’s instructive for Americans, who have peacefully enjoyed
religious liberty for more than two centuries, to realize the depth of
hatred that some people have for religion in general and Christianity in
particular.

The movie is a worthy addition to the genre of
successful religious films that portray Christian heroes who died for
their faith, such as “A Man For All Seasons” (Thomas More), “Becket,”
and “The Robe.”

In 1926, the Mexican president, Plutarco Elias
Calles, brutally enforced laws to suppress religion. Soldiers on
horseback broke into churches, vandalized church property, killed
priests, and strung up dead bodies on posts to terrify the people.

Government
officials, an elite openly admiring Soviet Communism, were determined
to destroy all visible evidences of religion, including the cross and
other Christian symbols, the wearing of traditional garments by Catholic
priests and nuns, and religious processions. Soldiers could order
anyone to repeat “Long live the Federal Government,” with death the
punishment for refusal.

Mexico’s Constitution required the schools
to be active participants in the battle to secularize the country and
suppress religion. The Constitution stated: “Education services should
be secular, and, therefore, free of any religious orientation.”

About
90,000 Mexicans died in the fighting that ensued as the Christians,
calling themselves Cristeros, resisted bravely. They got little or no
help from the Vatican, but eventually, in 2000, Pope John Paul II
canonized 25 Cristero saints and martyrs. The U.S. government apparently
was interested only in protecting its oil interests.

Our first
reaction to the killings in this movie is “of course, this can’t happen
here.” The bloody part may be improbable in the United States, but the
contempt for religion here is already evident.

It’s not difficult
to imagine the hateful words of the Mexican President being repeated in
the United States by the ACLU, Americans United for Separation of Church
and State, and various atheist litigators who are aggressively pushing
supremacist judges to ban the Ten Commandments, our national motto, and
crosses from schools and from every public place even when their purpose
is to honor servicemen who gave their lives on our behalf.

Through
speeches and regulations, President Obama is trying to eliminate all
public references to religion, to force religious worship behind closed
doors, and to coerce religious institutions into financing drugs and
procedures that violate their religious faith. ObamaCare will force
Christian hospitals, colleges and schools to pay for abortifacients,
contraceptives and sterilizations for their employees.

If they
don’t obey Obama’s orders, the penalty is financial death. It’s no
wonder that Obama campaigned as a messiah in 2008 saying, “we are the
ones we’ve been waiting for.”

 

Phyllis Schlafly – July 4, 2012 – EagleForum

 

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