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Famous Christian has new name for Obama

(Dr. James Dobson) - The greatest danger is posed by our federal government. It seeks to limit or weaken religious liberty and to “fundamentally transform” this great nation. That was an oft-quoted campaign slogan by candidate Barack Obama during his presidential bid in 2008. We now know what he meant by it. Among other things, he was targeting religious freedom and set about accomplishing that from the beginning. That was the activity to which I objected strenuously during my comments in Washington. I offer no apologies for expressing those views now. The effort to force Christians to violate their consciences must be opposed with all vigor, regardless of the consequences—primarily because it is unconstitutional. Christians are being chastised, dismissed, harangued and sued for daring to practice their deeply held convictions in the Public Square. Family Talk is among those who have been pressed against a wall.

You may know that a mandate was imposed by the Obama Administration and its Department of Human Services, requiring us and thousands of other non-profit organizations to provide abortifacients, such as “morning-after pills” or Plan B pharmaceuticals to employees and their daughters.iiiThose medications can interfere with implantation of tiny embryos in mothers’ uteruses, causing them to abort. That regulation would have forced us to participate in the killing of babies from the first days of life. It was an egregious demand that we could not—and will not—abide. The governmental mandate would have levied $800,000 in fines annually on our small organization. Indeed, it would have resulted in the closing of our doors. And get this: These fines were set to begin on May 1st, the day I spoke at the National Day of Prayer.

Family Talk filed a suit against then Secretary of HHS, Kathleen Sebelius, and ObamaCare. Legal representation was provided at no cost to us by the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). This ministry that I helped found in 1994 is led by my great friend, Alan Sears, and I am grateful to him and his highly competent legal team for this defense.iv

Two weeks prior to the inception of the fines, we hadn’t heard from the federal court deciding our case. I scheduled a conference call with our board of directors and asked them what we should do. Again, we would have ceased operation if the horrendous fines had been imposed. Nevertheless, the board vote on that day was unanimous. We decided to stay the course. We would not yield. If we had to close Family Talk, we were prepared to do it. God owns it all anyway.

A few days later, the decision by Judge Blackburn reached our offices.v He had ruled emphatically in our favor and granted a “temporary reprieve.” Though the ruling sounds tentative, it will probably survive the Administration’s expected appeal. I thank God for hearing and answering our prayers, and for the decision declaring the mandate to be unconstitutional. The ruling also offers relief to some other Christian organizations. I know many of you have been praying for us in this regard, and I deeply appreciate your concerns.

During my remarks to the NDOP audience, I quoted something I had written in 2012, which expressed my determination not to be dragged into the bloody business of abortion. President Obama had announced that year through his HHS operatives that every person receiving health insurance would have to pay $12 per year to the government, for allocation to abortion clinics. That was unacceptable to us under any circumstances. I called Barack Obama “the abortion President” that day, which is a role he deliberately crafted for himself.

Remember that I reported to you two months ago that the President’s proposed federal budget for the next fiscal year, 2014-2015, included $286,000,000 for Planned Parenthood and other abortion enterprises.vii That has never been done in history. Fortunately, Congress rejected this budget out of hand and refused to pass it.

And do you recall that in the campaign of 2008, the President bragged about having voted 100% with the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL)?viii He was proud of it. How can anyone challenge my characterization of Mr. Obama as “the abortion President” given the facts? No other Chief Executive in history has been so committed to the killing of babies. He even voted three times in the Illinois State Senate not to protect babies who were born alive after surviving botched abortions.ix

This is what I wrote in 2012, and quoted during the National Day of Prayer event, 2014:

To pay one cent for the killing of babies is egregious to me, and I will do all I can to correct a government that lies to me about its intentions and then tries to coerce my acquiescence with extortion. It would be a violation of my most deeply held convictions to disobey what I consider to be the principles in Scripture. The Creator will not hold us guiltless if we turn a deaf ear to the cries of His innocent babies. So come and get me if you must, Mr. President. I will not bow before your wicked regulation.x

I finished my remarks by asking for prayer, and there was an enthusiastic standing ovation from the people in attendance. I tell you that not to boast, but to describe the setting. At that moment as people cheered, Congresswoman Janice Hahn, D-CA, shouted something from the back of the Caucus Room and then she huffed out the door. I didn’t see her and didn’t know about it until later. To my knowledge, I am not aware of anyone else who objected to my remarks. However, the media had their story for the day. Within a few minutes, it began to spread across the nation. Their headline read, “Congresswoman walks out on James Dobson.”

The media reports didn’t mention that Ms. Hahn also has a 100 percent voting record in support of NARAL.xi She is obviously committed to the pro-abortion position. The blogs ignored what actually happened at the NDOP. There were more than 42,000 prayer events in cities and towns everywhere. Those in attendance in Washington called it one of the most successful NDOP events in memory. The naysayers only reported the irritation of one woman, Janice Hahn, who said my remarks were “inappropriate for a day of prayer.”