Networks Ignore HHS Requiring Religious Orgs to Provide Contraception

Soft focus is not just for cameras

Submitted by SeniorD on Mon, 01/23/2012 - 7:02pm.

Is there any wonder why the Pravada-like 'news media' ignores a government diktat? These dinosaurs are as culpable in the Rise of Obama as they are of Watergate.

Oh, and Diane Sawyer needs more than just soft focus to hide her age. Put her and HERSELF! together and all we'd see are two old women who are past their prime but still think They Are Important Personages.

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I love the way...

Submitted by stage9 on Mon, 01/23/2012 - 8:43pm.

the clarion call of "separation of church and state" by the overtly wicked echos across every state house and Congressional outhouse the moment a Christian group gets too close to their reinvented, dictatorial American government, but when IMPOSING unconstitutional dictates upon the Church, they're all disproportionately silent in declaring the same.

This nation was founded upon CHRISTIAN principles, and unless you're a complete illiterate, this is proven obvious through even an elementary study of American History.

US CAPITOL BUILDING
- In the United States Capitol the declaration `In God We Trust' is prominently displayed in both the United States House and Senate Chambers.
- Around the top of the walls in the House Chamber appear images of 23 great lawgivers from across the centuries, but Moses (the lawgiver, who--according to the Bible--originally received the law from God,) is the only lawgiver honored with a full face view, looking down on the proceedings of the House.
- Religious artwork is found throughout the United States Capitol, including in the Rotunda where the prayer service of Christopher Columbus, the Baptism of Pocahontas, and the prayer and Bible study of the Pilgrims are all prominently displayed.
- In the Cox Corridor of the Capitol are inscribed the words `America! God shed His grace on thee'.
- At the east Senate entrance of the Capitol are the words `Annuit Coeptis' which is Latin for `God has favored our undertakings'.
- In 1954 a special Congressional Prayer Room was added to the Capitol with a kneeling bench, an altar, an open Bible, an inspiring stained-glass window with George Washington kneeling in prayer, the declaration of Psalm 16:1: `Preserve me, O God, for in Thee do I put my trust,' and the phrase `This Nation Under God' displayed above the kneeling, prayerful Washington.
- in 1864, Congress passed an act authorizing each State to display statues of 2 of its heroes in the United States Capitol, resulting in numerous statues of noted Christian clergymen and leaders at the Capitol, including Gospel ministers such as the Revs. James A. Garfield, John Peter Muhlenberg, Jonathan Trumbull, Roger Williams, Jason Lee, Marcus Whitman, and Martin Luther King Jr.; Gospel theologians such as Roger Sherman; Catholic priests such as Father Damien, Jacques Marquette, Eusebio Kino, and Junipero Serra; Catholic nuns such as Mother Joseph; and numerous other religious leaders.

NATIONAL ARCHIVES
- The Ten Commandments are found in many Federal buildings across Washington, DC, including in bronze in the floor of the National Archives.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
- The Ten Commandments are found in a bronze statue of Moses in the Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress.
- In the Library of Congress, The Giant Bible of Mainz, and The Gutenberg Bible are on prominent permanent display and etched on the walls are Bible verses, including: `The light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehendeth it not' (John 1:5); `Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore, get wisdom and with all thy getting, get understanding' (Proverbs 4:7); `What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God' (Micah 6:8); and `The heavens declare the Glory of God, and the firmament showeth His handiwork' (Psalm 19:1).

SUPREME COURT
- The Ten Commandments are found in numerous locations at the U.S. Supreme Court, including in the frieze above the Justices, the oak door at the rear of the Chamber, the gable apex, and in dozens of locations on the bronze latticework surrounding the Supreme Court Bar seating.

JEFFERSON MEMORIAL
- Of the 5 areas inside the Jefferson Memorial into which Jefferson's words have been carved, 4 are God-centered, including Jefferson's declaration that `God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever';
- The Lincoln Memorial contains numerous acknowledgments of God and citations of Bible verses, including the declarations that `we here highly resolve that ... this nation under God ... shall not perish from the earth'.

LINCOLN MEMORIAL
- The Lincoln Memorial also reads: `The Almighty has His own purposes. `Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh' (Matthew 18:7); `as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said `the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether' (Psalms 19:9); `one day every valley shall be exalted and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh see it togetherÌ (Dr. Martin Luther KingÌs speech, based on Isaiah 40:4-5).

LIBERTY BELL
- The Liberty Bell was named for the Biblical inscription from Leviticus 25:10 emblazoned around it: `Proclaim liberty throughout the land, to all the inhabitants thereof'."

WASHINGTON MONUMENT
- In the Washington Monument are numerous Bible verses and religious acknowledgements carved on memorial blocks in the walls, including the phrases: `Holiness to the Lord' (Exodus 28:26, 30:30, Isaiah 23:18, Zechariah 14:20), `Search the Scriptures' (John 5:39), `The memory of the just is blessed' (Proverbs 10:7), `May Heaven to this Union continue its beneficence', and `In God We Trust', but the Latin inscription Laus Deo meaning `Praise be to God' is engraved on the monument's capstone."

THE PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL
Benjamin Franklin raised money to help found the hospital in 1751, in conjunction with Dr. Thomas Bond. When the United States declared independence from Great Britain, the hospital was already 25 years old. Franklin also served on the hospital's original Board of Managers, as well as being its first secretary and second president. The seal logo he chose to represent the building was that of "The Good Samaritan" with the inscription from the Bible in Luke 10:35 - "Take care of him and I will repay thee."

CURRENCY
- In 1956, Congress by law made `In God We Trust' the National Motto, and added the phrase to American currency.

DOCUMENTS
- The constitutions of each of the 50 states, either in the preamble or body, explicitly recognize or express gratitude to God.

SPEECHES & INAUGURATIONS
- America's first Presidential Inauguration incorporated 7 specific religious activities, including--

(1) the use of the Bible to administer the oath;
(2) affirming the religious nature of the oath by the adding the prayer `So help me God!' to the oath;
(3) inaugural prayers offered by the President;
(4) religious content in the inaugural address;
(5) civil leaders calling the people to prayer or acknowledgement of God;
(6) inaugural worship services attended en masse by Congress as an official part of congressional activities; and
(7) clergy-led inaugural prayers, activities which have been replicated in whole or part by every subsequent President

NOW, who's violating what? I think it's time Conservatives begin to debunk the liberal idiocracy that says America is/was a secular state.

"[W]e have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. . . . Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." -- Source: John Adams, The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States, Charles Francis Adams, editor (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co. 1854), Vol. IX, p. 229, October 11, 1798.)

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