It seems that the separation of Church and state actually means that the state is bent on totally eradicating the church.
Weasel Zippers reports:
Local veterans and volunteer groups are accusing Department of Veterans Affairs officials of censoring religious speech — including banning the word “God” — at Houston National Cemetery.
In one example cited in documents filed this week in federal court, cemetery director Arleen Ocasio reportedly told volunteers with the National Memorial Ladies that they had to stop telling the families, “God bless you,” at funerals and that they had to remove the words “God bless” from condolence cards.
The new allegations of “religious hostility” by VA and cemetery officials follow on the heels of a controversy over a prayer in Jesus’ name by Pastor Scott Rainey at a Memorial Day service in the cemetery.
Can anyone even pretend to be surprised by this secularist lunacy? Honestly, it’s like we put Richard freakin’ Dawkins in the White House.
June 29, 2011 at 4:51 pm
French Revolution: Reign of Terror?
This is what happens when secularism takes over. We also have the example of communism. Chaos is what comes when God is jettisoned and much much suffering.
June 29, 2011 at 5:09 pm
Please understand that the DVA is not about veterans; it is all about itself. The DVA has a staff of attorneys whose jobs are to find ways of NOT helping veterans.
Forgive me for being anonymous on this one; the DVA can be weird about investigating people.
June 30, 2011 at 4:23 am
Dead people are still citizens and sovereign persons. Prayers are free speech that living people say for those whose voices have been silenced by death. That any part of government constituted by the sovereign personhood of its citizens is silencing free speech of those gone before us is utterly totalitarian. Why don't they know who they represent and why are they not saying the words that our deceased members of society can no longer speak for themselves. This is what democracy is about: practicing freedom in the name of all persons, living, deceased and generations still to be born, our constitutional posterity, and especially the dead whose memory must be held in absolute honor, in impeccable freedom and in Truth, Justice and the American way. It is injustice to take from the dead, the freedom of speech for which veterans fought died. No, soldiers never die, they live in the hearts of their countrymen and their countrymen give voice to their prayers even in and especially in death.
Mary De Voe
June 30, 2011 at 4:39 am
P.S. God has already blessed us in the services of the deceased. These men served under the freedoms inscribed in the Declaration of Independence and in the First Amenment. It is called a "grandfather clause", and the will of service men who served to preserve their country. Government promises everything, but government still has not found a way to protect us from death and dying, so government must let us die in the only way acceptable and this is under God. Would America have been better off without these soldiers who fought for us? So, let them rest in peace under God. Only Satan worshippers desecrate the graves of valient men by stealing from them their freedom of speech.
Mary De Voe
June 30, 2011 at 12:59 pm
The government presumes to speak for its people by NOT mentioning God. The people speak for their veterans by mentioning God. God has been criminalized for being God. Can government give us the blessing that God gives us? Can government endow men with unalienable rights? Can government create all men equal? Can government give us blessing? Can government give us Divine Providence? Until government can give us all the blessing enumerated in our Declaration of Independence, government is instituted to protect and serve and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, and to do this, government absolutely must be beholden to almighty God for doing its work. No more slothing off. No more taking tax money and ignoring the will of the people, the voice of the people for the common good. Hybrid government is for hybrid persons. The will of the people is heard in the voice of the people, and the voice of the people says: “God bless”
Mary De Voe