Catholic League president
Bill Donohue comments on a new video by President Barack Obama that was cut to
launch his “African Americans for Obama” campaign:
It is hardly newsworthy for President Obama to
beckon African Americans to support his presidential campaign, but his clarion
call to black churches to get on board represents a break with presidential
politics: it is a deliberate challenge to the IRS stricture governing the role
of religion in politics.
In the video [click here], President Obama explicitly calls on
African Americans to go “to your faith community” to get the word out about his
campaign. He even goes so far as to say that “congregation captains” should be
organized to accomplish this goal.
This is good news. It means that the IRS harness
on the clergy is officially off. Priests can now appoint “congregation
captains” who will inform the faithful about attempts by the Obama
administration to deny Catholics their First Amendment rights. By formally
appealing to their parishioners to mobilize against the Obamacare legislation,
priests will be faithfully implementing the president’s new initiative.
Bishops, of course, will be able to seize on this
ground-breaking proposal by asking priests, nuns, brothers, school teachers—lay
leaders of every cause—to get the word out about the draconian Health and Human
Services edict.
In other words, by undoing the IRS muzzle on black
ministers, Obama has also made it possible for bishops and priests to organize
against his war on Catholics with impunity. The timing is auspicious.
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