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Obama
correctly decided not to allow FDR's Prayer to be placed on
the WWII Monument. To some this is a controversy.
Part of FDR's prayer reads as follows:
“Our sons, pride of our Nation,
this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to
preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization,
and to set free a suffering humanity.”
To put such a
statement on our national monument would be a defacement of
the monument and an injustice to FDR. For while FDR surely meant well, these
words were inappropriate and not well chosen. What our
sons were certainly not endeavoring to do is preserve 'our
religion.' For the United States of America does not have
a religion. The Constitution specifically forbids our
government from establishing a national religion. The
attempt to add this prayer to the monument was dishonest on its
face for it was a deceitfully blatant underhanded attempt by some to affirm that
Christianity is our national religion, which it is not.
Attempts in recent years by successive administrations to tear
our Constitution apart piece by piece has been progressing
faster than I ever could have imagined, and this was just the
latest attempt by some at shredding another significant piece
of it. While Obama
has done his share of undermining
our country's founding document, at least this time he did
the right thing. It would be wrong of me not to
acknowledge it.
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