ObamaCare needs a crash cart. It's so ominous that President Barack Obama is partnering with God and the God-squad to keep the American people from pulling the plug.
"Thousands of religious leaders got a call from on high last Wednesday when Obama reached out to Jewish and Christian clergy, urging them to push health care reform from the pulpit,"
according to Fox News. "We are God's partners in matters of life and death" Obama
told rabbis in an earlier call Wednesday, according to Ben Smith at Politico.com.
Notice that Obama didn't refer to it as "serving" God. Obama is partnering with God on life and death. Are we feeling better yet?
Apparently Obama has converted from his position in 2004: "
I think there is an enormous danger on the part of public figures to rationalize or justify their actions by claiming God's mandate." Partnering with God to accomplish "
necessary reform" sounds like a mandate.
At CNN's "Compassion Forum," in 2008, Obama
said those in the public square shouldn't claim a "direct line to God":
And the biggest danger, I think, for those of us of religious faith when we're in the public sphere is a certain self-righteousness, where we start thinking that, "Well, you know, I've got a direct line to God." You know, that is incompatible with democracy. You may have a direct line to God. But, you know, that is not -- the public square is not the place for us to empower ourselves in that way.
The problem with Obama's clergy call is, if you criticize Obama's plan, according to Obama, you're "bearing false witness." Apparently, Moses is the new White House Truth Czar. David Brody of CBN
Janet M. LaRue
Jan LaRue is Senior Legal Analyst with the American Civil Rights Union; former Chief Counsel at Concerned for Women; Legal Studies Director at Family Research Council; and Senior Counsel for the National Law Center for Children and Families.
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