Get Your Priorities in Line, Mr. President

I read an article on the Drudge Report tonight that caught my attention fairly quickly. The headline read, "Jesus missing from Obama's Georgetown Speech." This article was posted on the NBC Washington news website. The article reports that a monogram displaying Jesus' name behind a podium at Georgetown university was requested to be covered by the Whitehouse before President Obama gave an economic speech this week.

As I read through the article, I began to think to myself, "Have we really digressed this much in America? Is this the very sight of Christ, the word Jesus so offensive that we can't speak his name at a publicly sponsored function or even have a picture of his name displayed in the background of a presidential speech at a Christian university?" This is utter lunacy. The vast majority of the American population personally claims to be born-again Christians, yet our president is too scared to have Christ's name in view at a speech.

I am a religious man, a young religious man--only 23 years old, and I have religious tolerance instilled into my very conscience because I understand why our nation was founded. Most, not all, but most of the original settlers that colonized this very soil that we walk on everyday came to this place to escape religious persecution. So I have no problem with any man or woman worshipping in the manner that he or she sees as the best way to do so, nor do I have a problem with anyone chosing not to worship. That is your perrogative as an American. But to be ashamed of your belief, to go to such lengths as to hide the Man on whose principles we based our laws and social morals is to begin a path toward societal decay.

I can already predict the arguments from the leftists. "Well our Constitution clearly states that Congress shall pass no law establishing an official religion, so we aren't a Christian nation, and we shouldn't have any mention of God or symbols of religion in government affairs."

I agree. Congress can't pass any legislation to establish a religion in the United States. But who said anything about that? This is a sign with Jesus' name on it. Nobody is asking president Obama to get in front of a crowd and say that the Christian religion is the official religion of the United States and if you don't like it, then go somewhere else. He was speaking at a Christian college for cryin' out loud. What did you expect, oh Great Leader Obama? Would you rather it be your name up there behind you on display at a Christian college? Or maybe you want fine Obamian universities to spring up across this great nation. Maybe that's what this is about. Maybe our wonderful and great leader is jealous that Jesus has a higher approval rating than he does. Apparently he feels subservient to Saudi King Abdullah and bows (I thought he was about to kneel to the ground and kiss his hand), but he can't share the spotlight with Jesus. This is definitely the man I want leading the free world and protecting us from radical Islam.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that Obama is a Muslim. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt when he says he is a Christian. But, by God, don't go to another country and bow to a leader like that, in a gesture insinuating that you are inferior to him, then hide the name of Jesus in a religious learning intsitution. Get your priorities in line, Mr. President.