Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

September 30, 2010

In a September 27 conference call, President Barack Obama and several advisors, including the head of the White House Office of Faith-Based Programs, sought to enlist religious leaders as evangelists on behalf of his socialized health care program.

?Get out there and spread the word,? Obama told the clerics. ?The debate in Washington is over?. I think all of you can be really important validators and trusted resources for friends and neighbors?.?

Of course, if the debate over the merits of that measure were really over where the public is concerned, Obama wouldn?t be pressuring trusted religious leaders to validate it in the eyes of their congregants.

Though Obama?s imperial overture is outrageous, he can?t take all of the blame: After all, it was his Republican predecessor who created the Office of Faith-Based Programs. Few things could be more inappropriate than a president ? any president ? acting as if the purpose of the church is to validate his ideological agenda. Christian leaders take their direction from a Higher Authority.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.