On April 15th, President Obama spoke at Georgetown University in Gaston Hall. After setting the stage it was noted that IHS (a traditional Catholic symbol for the name of Jesus) was in the architecture behind the president. No problem, right? After all Georgetown is a Catholic university not unlike Notre Dame where he will be delivering the commencement address in a few weeks. Wrong. Big problem evidently. After all, we can't have a symbol of Christ in the background of the president's speech... not the week after his big speech in Turkey where he praised Islam for shaping the world and the U.S. for the better. (Still waiting for Barak or Michelle to give a speech about how proud they are of the shaping of our country by Christianity.)
So the president's "advance team" asked the university to cover over Christ's name with a painted piece of plywood (seen at right) that was still up after the speech. There... problem averted. Now we don't have to worry about offending the Muslims or Jews or anyone else who may take offense at the name of Christ.I only have one question: When the president makes a speech from one of the many Islamic masques springing up across this country, will he ask them to cover any symbols of Islam or Mohammed behind him before he speaks there? Something tells me that he would do the exact opposite. Something tells me that in a non-Christian religious setting, he would be more likely to flaunt his presence there and to model sensitivities to their sacred symbols.
I am not saying this "cover up" was an ANTI-Christ statement (ANTI as in "opposed to"), I'm just saying that it was a "camera angle" consideration that trampled on the sensitivities of the host school, Georgetown, and something tells me that Obama (or those responsible for the order) would only have the audacity to cover a Christian symbol--with symbols of non-Christian religions, I think their political correctness would prompt quite opposite actions..
Watch the pro-Islam speech in Turkey at this link. Like me, you'll probably find no fault in the "olive branch" Obama holds out to Muslims, but again I only have one question: when Obama speaks in a Muslim venue, and that will surely happen, will he rudely cover up the symbols of their faith? I would hope not. So why not show the same respect and caution for the name of Christ?
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Read more about it here. Click on photos to enlarge.
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2 comments:
Like you, I do not understand why it was important to cover up the symbol for the name of Jesus. Other presidents apparently have spoken at Georgetown and they did not make any such request.
Covering up this religious symbol with a piece of plywood painted black is Oh! so tacky.
My husband and I attended a Tea Party in our area on the 15th. I am appalled by the poor, distorted news coverage these numerous political demonstrations generated. It is estimated that over 2000 Tea Parties were held throughout the U.S. As many as one million people may have attended. This is representative of millions more who were unable to attend for one reason or another. Yet, in our own Chicago Tribune, the possibility that United will bump obese passengers received as much newspaper space as the massive political demonstrations that took place throughout our country. Amazing! And frightening!
I almost feel sorry for the young woman from CNN who made such a fool of herself. Obviously she had an angle she was pursuing which was that these Tea Parties were anti-government and were organized by Fox. She had her script all set to go. It was an inappropriate response to what the young father was trying to say about Lincoln. But she had her predetermined angle to get out there to the viewing public.
I think the answer to your question is so he and his staff would never offend those who might invite him to speak in a Mosque, but I doubt he would ever speak at one because so many people already say he is Muslim and he would not want to give them something to talk about.
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