Last week, the Washington Times ran an excellent opinion article by Robert Knight, focusing on the Barack Hussein Obama Regime’s war on decency, and on Judeo-Christian faiths. While it was excellent, he doesn’t mention the fact that it isn’t JUST Obama who has been at war with common decency, Judeo-Christian faiths, and American values.

The entire American left, from Marxists to mere ‘Progressives,’ and even beyond the left, to unprincipled ‘moderates,’ who lack the conviction to decide where they stand, and are easily deceived by arguments against that which is good and praiseworthy, all have contributed greatly to this culture war. And whether one is ‘moderate,’ ‘Progressive,’ or flat-out Marxist, all but the most Principled contribute, at times, to the war against American decency.

For those who don’t remember, just look at what the Communist Party envisioned in the 1963 goals of Communists in America:

…20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis…

Sadly, today, in accordance with the desires of the Communist Party, the rights of Bible-believing Christians, devout Jews, and those of other ‘biblical faiths’ are under brutal, sustained, attack, as is every institution, from the Boy Scouts to Glenn Beck, that stands up to these evil attacks on what has made America so great. Our values and principled
One of America’s UNALIENABLE rights that is guaranteed is the free exercise of religion; the Constitution prohibits Congress from passing any law that restricts religious liberty, or from establishing a national church:

Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…

Remember what two of our Founding Fathers, America’s first two Presidents, both very religious men, have said on the subject of religion and morality:

While our country remains untainted with the principles and manners which are now producing desolation in so many parts of the world; while she continues sincere, and incapable of insidious and impious policy, we shall have the strongest reason to rejoice in the local destination assigned us by Providence. But should the people of America once become capable of that deep simulation towards one another, and towards foreign nations, which assumesthe language of justice and moderation, while it is practising iniquity and extravagance, and displays in the most captivating manner the charming pictures of candour, frankness, and sincerity, while it is rioting in rapine and insolence, this country will be the most miserable habitation in the world. Because we have no government, armed with power, capable of contending with human passions, unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge and licentiousness would break the strongest cords of our Constitution, as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
-President John Adams, Letter to the Officers of the First Brigade of the Third Division of the Militia of Massachusetts, 11 October 1798

Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men and Citizens. The mere Politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and public felicity.
-President George Washington, Farewell Address, 17 September 1796

Let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
-President George Washington, Farewell Address, 17 September 1796

While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.
-General George Washington, General Orders 2 May 1778

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The fact of the matter is that America is great because America is good. Our religion and our moral values and our principles of freedom are what have made us the world’s superpower. Here’s the opinion piece from the Washington Times that started my rant:

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Obama’s War On Decency

By Robert Knight | Friday, December 9, 2011

Three incidents in recent days tell us all we need to know about the Obama administration’s “values.”

On Dec. 1, the story broke that Bethesda-based Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where wounded veterans convalesce, apparently had banned visitors from bringing in Bibles or other religious items.

Walter Reed’s Chief of Staff C.W. Callahan issued a memo in September that said, “No religious items (i.e., Bibles, reading material, and/or artifacts) are allowed to be given away or used during a visit.”

Telling wounded soldiers and their families that their First Amendment freedoms have been suspended should be a firing offense.

Rep. Steve King, Iowa Republican, who serves on the House subcommittee on the Constitution, conveyed the gravity: “The idea that these soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines that have fought to defend our Constitution – and that includes our First Amendment rights to religious liberty – would be denied that religious liberty when they are lying in a hospital bed recovering from wounds incurred while defending that liberty is the most bitter and offensive type of an irony that I can think of.”

The policy was rescinded, but that it was imposed at all is a reminder of the culture President Obama has fostered in the armed forces and executive agencies, where extreme environmentalism, moral relativism and sexual immorality have replaced traditional American values. We shouldn’t really be surprised when a bureaucrat tries to bar Bibles in a U.S. military stateside hospital while other bureaucrats make sure terrorists in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, get copies of the Koran.

You almost have to feel sorry for poor Col. Callahan, who is part of the new metrosexual military, which values “diversity” more than combat readiness, so long as it doesn’t include Christianity.

Recall Army Gen. George Casey’s comment after a Muslim extremist was charged in the slaughter of 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in November 2009: “Our diversity, not only in our Army, but in our country, is a strength. And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse.”

Announcing an end to the rule, Walter Reed public affairs officer Sandy Dean said a new policy “will be written to articulate our initial intention, which was to respect religious and cultural practices of our patients.” Say what?

Ms. Dean went on to insist that the policy was “in no way meant to prohibit family members from providing religious items to their loved ones at all.”

But that’s exactly what it said. Time for Groucho’s defense when caught in the act: “Are you going to believe me or your lying eyes?”

Here’s more from the hapless Ms. Dean: “We appreciate Congressman King bringing this to our attention. We don’t want our instructions to be ambiguous.”

Ambiguity is not the problem. It’s the Obama administration’s hostility to religion, except for Islam.

From the prevarications that helped sell Obamacare, to the lies surrounding Operation Fast and Furious, to the periodic emissions of horse pucky about Mr .Obama’s “evolving” view of marriage while he’s sabotaging the Defense of Marriage Act, it’s getting so bad that Obama administration spokesmen really should consider donning Groucho noses, glasses and mustaches. That would help disguise them, at least, and pave their way to enter the Witness Protection Program.

The second news item was Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s speech in Geneva on Tuesday, announcing that American taxpayers will be paying for homosexual activism around the world through a $3 million Global Equality Fund. That’s right. In a time when the United States is facing massive debt, plus a rising China and militant Islam, we’re going to use foreign aid money to promote “gay rights” to the world. Speaking to a crowd of diplomats, many of whom do not equate race or ethnicity with volitional sexual behavior that has moral implications, Mrs. Clinton urged everyone to come around to her point of view, saying, “I come here before you with respect, understanding and humility.” (Now do what I tell you.)

Once upon a time, foreign aid was allocated as an incentive for other nations to support the interests and security of the United States. Countries did not get the money if they worked with our enemies. But now, under left-wing Democrats, foreign aid is a tool to force a radical agenda on the rest of the world, regardless of America’s interests. I’m waiting for protest marches and cries of “cultural imperialism” from the Occupy This Squalid Dump crowd, but I think I might be waiting forever.

The third item is the Food and Drug Administration’s evil idea to allow the Plan B “morning-after pill” to be sold over the counter to anyone – regardless of age. After the story hit the fan, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius issued a directive on Wednesday to stop it. Plan B, which can act as an abortifacient, will continue to be sold over the counter without a prescription to anyone at least 17 years old. But 10-year-olds won’t be able to slip it onto the counter next to their gummy bears.

Is it really necessary to explain why children should not be allowed to buy a powerful drug? Should it be necessary to explain why wounded soldiers who risked their lives should be allowed to receive Bibles from their families, or why many Americans don’t want their country exporting the values of Sodom and Gomorrah instead of Valley Forge?

In Obama’s America, yes.

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