The Truth Will Set You Free: The President’s Politicized Pulpit Supports the Freedom of His Speech But Not Ours!

By John Sykes

The secular progressives continually blither about “separation of church and state” while the founding fathers obviously espoused “protection of church from state”. Church leaders hide in their pulpits, fearful that their tax status is threatened if they get political.

Yet Jim Towney in Pastors For Obama Care points out that President Obama has and continues to politicize his WH Office of faith-based initiatives:

I was George W. Bush's director of faith-based initiatives. Imagine what would have happened had I proposed that he use that office to urge thousands of religious leaders to become "validators" of the Iraq War?
I can tell you two things that would have happened immediately. First, President Bush would have fired me—and rightly so—for trying to politicize his faith-based office. Second, the American media would have chased me into the foxhole Saddam Hussein had vacated.

Yet on Tuesday President Obama and his director of faith-based initiatives convened exactly such a meeting to try to control political damage from the unpopular health-care law. "Get out there and spread the word," Politico.com reported the president as saying on a conference call with leaders of faith-based and community groups. "I think all of you can be really important validators and trusted resources for friends and neighbors, to help explain what's now available to them."

Remember the multiple times that our Politician-in-Chief has picked up the phone to religious leaders to “encourage” them to promote some failing part of his agenda? It would seem that speech is only free when it supports progressive madness.

CBN’s Pastors to Challenge IRS on 'Pulpit Freedom Sunday points out that that lack of freedom of speech will be tested tomorrow from with political speeches from 100 US pulpits :

The purpose of Pulpit Freedom Sunday is to challenge IRS rules, adopted in 1954 at the request of then-Sen. Lyndon Johnson, that prohibit any speech from a church pulpit favoring or opposing a political candidate. Johnson found himself bearing the brunt of critical comments from Christian pastors concerned about his behavior in Washington.
However, the ADF says that rule unconstitutionally restricts a pastor's freedom of speech. The ministers hope to provoke a court case, so they can have the regulation overturned.
"The IRS should not be used as a political tool to advance the agenda of radical groups bent on silencing the voice of the church and inhibiting religious freedom," Erik Stanley, a senior counsel for the ADF told WorldNetDaily.

Without belaboring the recent discourse by this administration supporting the Muslim ideology’s rights to unfettered practice of their “religion”, it would seem that Muslims are afforded a freedom of speech long denied the Christian faith.

So what’s it going to be – manipulation of the church to benefit the governing political class or protection of the 1st amendment rights of all churches?