February 16, 2021
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on President Biden’s faith-based programs:
President Biden’s decision to appoint Melissa Rogers to head the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships is telling. She will also serve as senior director for faith and public policy in the White House Domestic Policy Council. He could not have chosen a more seasoned secularist to steer these faith-based entities.
Rogers may be a Baptist, but it is her secular vision of faith-based programs that will direct her decision-making. This not a matter of speculation. This is her second appointment as director of faith-based programs: Obama chose her to head this initiative in his second term. So we know what we are getting.
When Rogers worked in the Obama White House, her idea of reaching out to faith communities was to invite the Secular Coalition of America to the White House. She welcomed the professional atheists in the name of religious pluralism. As I previously said, this was “akin to welcoming racists in the name of racial harmony.”
Rogers sides with the homosexual agenda against people of faith. Would Rogers would ban Orthodox Jews from exclusively hiring their own to run their day-care centers? Yes she would. Would she oppose Catholic foster-care programs from following Catholic teachings when deciding whom to place children with in adoptive settings? Yes she would.
Rogers doesn’t miss any salient issue. For example, she wants to ban “government-sponsored religious displays.”
President Biden has a right to appoint whomever he wants to command his faith-based programs. But in choosing Rogers the “devout Catholic” has sent an unmistakable message to people of faith: You lose.
Full story at The Catholic League.
The First Amendment bans all religious displays by government. What’s your point?
uh no it doesn’t it never has.
The courts have viewed the matter differently. Not all religious displays by government are banned. The U.S. Supreme Court considers multiple factors in making a determination. Your assertion is a broad, over-generalization of American jurisprudence on the issue.
Just keeps getting better. Thanks, God. Anytime, show your power. Do something… anytime. Waiting.
Kevin stop with your tiresome whining, imagine being a Chalcedon Catholic in Iraq 4 years ago with Isis destroying everything Christian. Yet Our Brethren held fast.
Many churches in our Nation today, have become very weak, worldly and secularized– including ours! Dancing to the worldly golden idols, and completely forgetting God! That is why we have such poor representation for our interests, in the government. This lady is a very weak Baptist, isn’t she! You cannot serve both God and worldly interests.
On June 6, 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered a very powerful D-Day Prayer, on his Fireside radio broadcast. One of his most powerful, historical radio broadcasts! You can listen to it on YouTube. President Washington, likewise, was a man of prayer– and it is recorded historically, that one cold night, when American troops were greatly suffering in Valley Forge, General Washington, an Episcopalian, had a vision of Our Blessed Mother, during his prayers, and she assured him of eventual victory, and a bright future for his country. All of our country’s great leaders have been men of God, and prayer! Towards the end of his second term, President Reagan used to count the days when he would be gone from the White House– so he could more easily attend church services, and worship and pray! He needed God!
Very good indeed. Gen Patton ordered his army Chaplain to write a prayer asking God to moderate the poor weather during the Battle of the Bulge. It is quite moving. And, was answered. I encourage folks to read or listen to that prayer.
My point? Can one imagine a US army commander doing the same now? And, remaining employed?
Ah, Mary pierced with sorrow,
Remember, reach and save
The soul that comes to-morrow
Before the God that gave!
Since each was born of woman,
For each at utter need —
True comrade and true foeman —
Madonna, intercede!
Not sure why Kipling is so out of fashion. His poetry is made for our times.
Keith w Petersen– Great post! Yes, we are and always have been, “One Nation Under God,” (not secularized nor atheist!). On Dec. 14, 1944, as the weather was so bad, and our troops were struggling, Gen. Patton asked Chaplain O’Neill to write a prayer for good weather, but the Chaplain replied that it is never done, to ask God for good weather, in order to kill fellow men. However, he worked on the prayer, to get it just right, and on Dec. 22, cards were printed and passed out to every member of the Third Army. On the back of the prayer card, was a Christmas greeting from Gen.
Patton, encouraging the troops. Well, they all said the prayer– and it worked! You can find this famous story in books, or else online, with photos of the famous prayer card. America is not a secularized nor atheist country– she believes in God, the Judeo-Christian Bible, and gives all the right to worship as they wish.
Mamy Americans may have family members who may have kept this prayer card, from military service in WWII. 250,000 copies were printed and passed out to Gen. Patton’s Third Army. They all said the prayer– and it worked. The prayer asks God to restrain the immoderate rains, and grant fair weather for Battle– and for God to help the soldiers with His power, to crush the evil and oppression of the enemy, and establish His justice among men and nations. America is “One Nation, under God,” that seeks His “liberty and justice for all.”
Keith,
Kipling’s ‘The White Man’s Burden’ poem would get him cancelled for sure.
Biden is seeking to totally undermine and destroy our Judeo-Christian religious and moral natiobal heritage, and replace it with anti-American, anti-Christian, secularist, extremely immoral, Democratic Party Platform hippie liberal leftist evils and filth. Abortion/LGBT agenda-promoter, Xavier Becerra’s HHS Senate confirmation hearing begins soon– he should not even be considered for the job! Shame on Biden and Becerra– scandalous false “Catholics!”
Melissa Roger’s has absolutely NO BUSINESS calling herself a Christian, much less a Baptist.
Ms. Roger is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Another sickening choice for a post in this administration Ms. Rogers calls herself a Christian and Joe Biden considers himself a faithful Catholic. Both of them are seriously deluded. Biden thinks it is perfectly fine to use our tax dollars to pay for unlimited abortion on demand here in our own country and abroad. Scandalous — how can Biden sleep at night? His pick for “faith-based” programs is not surprising.