<p>Okay…somebody please alert the masses. This is nothing but propaganda trying to alert conservative Catholics that Obama wants to destroy their faith. Did anyone read the article? President Obama was giving a POLICY speech. His speech wasn’t directed toward Georgetown students, faculty, or administration. It was a speech about U.S. economic POLICY. Obama has always tried to be inclusive in his message, and someone who is not Catholic might turn on the TV, see those symbols, feel excluded and not hear an important information. This is really quite a different situation than the president addressing the students of a particular institution. If he were to go to Notre Dame to give the commencement speech and ask for the removal of any symbol of my faith, this
Obama supporter would be first in line to criticize him. I don’t think the Georgetown “incident” is alarming. </p>
<p>Let us not forget that OBAMA IS A CHRISTIAN who has accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. But he is also the president of ALL Americans. Religion should play a limited role in policy, and that is why I think those symbols would have been out of place in his policy speech. </p>
<p>CoffeeAddict: take a valium and calm yourself down. It’s not that disagreeing with Obama makes someone a racist at all. It’s the ways in which people voice that disagreement. It’s the tone of the discourse and how they phrase their dissent. And please, show me SOLID evidence of Obama’s intolerance toward the Catholic faith.If anything, by going to speak in Catholic venues (like Notre Dame) he is actually demonstrating his inclusivity of non-majority groups. BTW, your interpretation of Islam is incorrect: it is Muslim extremists who are terrorists; the vast majority of Muslims are true to their faith and want peace.</p>