WH: No Religious Cover-up at Georgetown

I too am very concerned and upset that our President of the United States goes to a Catholic University to present and allows/requests a symbol or name of Jesus to be covered while he presents. The flag backdrop doesn't wash with me. If this decision was made by his staff, I would again question who are these people now running our country? Very curious to me that our President can't be in the same picture with Jesus or a symbol representing Christ. More and more I am beginning to wonder who Obama really is???? Actions speak louder than words - right? What about the decision-makers at the University? You went along with this request by Obama's staff? Where is your spiritual backbone. This situation would not have happened if you had informed the President and his staff that if the President or anyone with him is uncomfortable, interferes with a good shot of the President, etc., then perhaps they should cancel out. Shame to all of you!!

Wow maybe some one needs to inform our dear president that this country was built on Christian values and the rock is Jesus Christ......this leader does not walk like he talks......has power gone to his head? The Bible clearly states that God will not be mocked....In historical Biblical times there were great consequences for behaviors of that kind......May the Lord God Almighty have mercy on our country....there are some of us who bow to the King of Kings and his name isnt obama..its Jesus

I am appalled at the fact that Georgetown University would allow JHS to be covered up because it was directly behind Obama. First he states that we are not a Christian country and now we have to cover up religious imagery because he doesn't belive that we are Christians. What is wrong with you? I am totally dismayed at your lack of backbone to stand up and exert your rights in this land of freedom for whom so many have given up their lives.
He may be our president but we no not have to bow to him. That is reserved for our Lord and Savior.

I am appalled at the fact that Georgetown University would allow JHS to be covered up because it was directly behind Obama. First he states that we are not a Christian country and now we have to cover up religious imagery because he doesn't belive that we are Christians. What is wrong with you? I am totally dismayed at your lack of backbone to stand up and exert your rights in this land of freedom for whom so many have given up their lives.
He may be our president but we no not have to bow to him. That is reserved for our Lord and Savior.

I think there is much too much posing and image-making concern in politics today.

If a politician is speaking somewhere he is a guest and should accept his surroundings as they are and not be concerned with changing the backdrop to make himself look 'more American,' handsomer, more capable, or anything else.

Shame on him, or any other politician who has done this, and shame on the school for complying.

Center One posted:
I have a question reaganfan: were you upset when President Bush kissed and held hands with the Saudi king a few years ago?
At least Bush didn't send his
press secretary out to lie about his
actions!

Why is it that Georgetown takes no responsibility for agreeing and allowing any religious symbols to be masked? Were they forced? Or do they just prefer to be martyrs? Does anyone even care about the speech he gave? Nothing sinister was done and it was a speech given by our President that both parties agreed to. If Georgetown was so appalled, they should have refused. Get over it already.

Wow ! This is really concerning !
No wonder all the rebellion has popped up in just the first few months of a disaster for a President ! The Apology tour and now this ? We got some change all right !

Give me a break!!! Tell me where I said that the U. S. Constitution was a Christian document. You said there was no reference to Jesus Christ. I pointed out that there IS a reference to Jesus Christ. Just because something has a reference to Jesus Christ does not make it a Christian document.

Our founding fathers did not want to follow in the footsteps of England with its Church of England, where the Church had a direct influence on policy. But our founding fathers also wanted to ensure that the Congress didn't prohibit the free exercise of religion either.

I think BO gets a kick out of seeing the Catholics fighting over him just to see where loyalties are.

He loves the spotlight.

Living up to being the most polarizing president in modern history.

a symbol means nothing, what's in the heart means everything, and by the look at some of these comments your heart is difinitly not in the right place, constant ranting about nothing, pulling at straws, useless!

What is this constant ranting really about, it's definitely not about a religious symbol, what's really bugging you people.

Posted by: James Danley | Apr 17, 2009 5:20:23 PM - "That IS a reference to Jesus Christ!"
So any document using "A.D." or "Anno Domini" or "In the year of our Lord," is a Christian document? No. It's simply the accepted designation used to number years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Our Founding Fathers were not embracing "OUR" Lord as part of the Constitution. It was the English translation for "Anno Domini".

What makes me so sure? Back when the Constitution was drafted, a handful of delegates to the Constitutional Convention actually argued for formal recognition of Christianity in the Constitution. They insisted that such language was necessary in order to "hold out some distinction between the professors of Christianity and downright infidelity or paganism".

That language was not adopted and the Constitution was instead written to give NO special treatment or preference to any religion. Article VI, which allows persons of all religious viewpoints to hold public office, was adopted by a unanimous vote.

you are pulling at straws with your useless ranting!

Posted by: reaganfan | Apr 17, 2009 2:17:30 PM "President Obama didn't bow to the Saudi King. Lie."

I have a question reaganfan: were you upset when President Bush kissed and held hands with the Saudi king a few years ago? Conservatives didn't make a peep about the proximity of the Bush family and King Abdullah for the past 8 years, but now they are all riled up over Obama's symbolic gesture of respect.

If you've ever traveled outside the United States, you know that different cultures and countries have different protocol and different customs. For example, it's not necessary to bow to a king or queen unless you're a subject of the country, but in Muslim tradition a bow is the sign of affection and respect from a younger man to an older man. It wasn't obsequious. I'd say the biggest mistake was the White House's media handler's response, trying to down play that it happened. But it wasn't Obama's "lie" - in case you hadn't noticed, our President has more important things on his desk.

And who'd have thunk conservatives were such sticklers for protocol and symbols? Do you recall President Bush attempting to give Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany, a back rub during the G8 Summit? Obama's bow is just like this outrage over covering a symbol at Georgetown. Another tempest in a teapot.

Let me put this a different way! If a Republican president asked that anything be covered up, the Left would have accused him of censoring Constitutionally-protected free speech. Instead when a Democrat does this the Left blasts those of us on the Right for complaining that it is a violation of the Constitutional-protection against the prohibition of the free exercise of Religion.

Finally, Center One, you can't spin your way out of the reference to Jesus Christ. Yes, the founding fathers were dating their action--the month, day and year--but in doing so they specifically stated, "In the year of our Lord." Not someone elses Lord, not just any Lord, "OUR" Lord who was born one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven years earlier. That IS a reference to Jesus Christ!

Yehs, Yehs, this is a complete outrage! Much worse than anything George Bush did. Now let's all go out and throw teabags at a cardboard cutout of Obama.

Posted by: tyler | Apr 17, 2009 2:33:02 PM "Candidate Obama was happy to have Jesus symbols around when he was trying to get all of us bitter religious people to vote for him."

The "bitter religious" people are those who insist that the United States was designed to be officially Christian and that our laws should enforce the doctrines of (their version of) Christianity.

The rest of us are not bitter and support the idea of separation of Church and State.

"The MSM has lost all of it's integrity will you be next?" While I would agree to some extent on some news reportage, where is there no integrity with this story? The MSM has nothing to do with the issue other than reporting it, and pretty objectively, accurately and in a straightforward manner to my POV. If they hadn't reported it, then others would saying something else. And if you don't agree with me, that doesn't mean you should just be quiet about it as one poster suggested. Tempest in a Teapot? That would be yesterday's tea parties heh. You can go to San Francisco and buy your Obama votive candle. For real but old news, head of Obama on the body of St. Martin de Porres. That will help the economy. Maybe somebody should start making Obama stained glass suncatchers. Maybe already have. Yup, there's a red white and blue one modelled on the famous poster that was the subject of a lawsuit between the artist and AP, haven't heard anything about the status of that lately.

Georgetown and Notre Dame:

What are you doing?
What is more important?
Values and principles or prestige?

The MSM has lost all of it's integrity will you be next?