Tuesday, April 20, 2010

No, Obama Did Not Cancel the National Day of Prayer

Team Obama canceled an ecumenical prayer service scheduled at the White House which was to be part of the National Day of Prayer.

He did not, as many have believed, cancel the National Day of Prayer itself.

Nevertheless, it should be realized why so many jumped to the wrong conclusion when this story first began to leak out.

And that is because Barack Obama has gone around the block to show his antipathy to Christianity.

Whether it has been his zealous promotion of abortion, his stumping for the homosexual agenda, his repeated praises of Islam, his many appointments of anti-family activists, his long attachment to the virulent form of liberation theology taught by Jeremiah Wright, his smug declarations that the United States is not a Christian nation, his lack of church attendance, his secularizing of heretofore religious cultural traditions, his belligerent treatment of Israel and, no small matter, his bizarre version of ethics in which lying, manipulation, coercion, and arrogance are all acceptable if they get him what he wants, Barack Obama has proven himself to be overtly hostile to orthodox Christianity.

So pass the word -- the President did not cancel the National Day of Prayer. But given the remarkable record of anti-Christian activity he has assembled in just 16 months, prayers in behalf of our country need to be much more expansive than just one day anyhow.