URGENT PETITION! Add F.D.R.’s D-Day Prayer to the W.W.II Memorial in DC by passing H.R. 2070, and Pass S.Res.18 allowing optional PRAYER AT PUBLIC SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS, and pass H.R. 2848 the VETERANS RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ACT. Please select, sign, and WE WILL FAX your petition to all 535 members of Congress.
Victory coming? Senator Introduces FDR Prayer Memorial Bill
After YOU helped fax tens of thousands of petitions to the House and Senate requesting they engrave FDR’s prayer on the WWII memorial, guess what happened?
We finally have a Senator introducing the legislation. Thanks to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) and some quietly persistent lobbying by our friend Chris Long of Ohio Christian Alliance.
Senator Portman is requesting Congress authorize an inscription of a prayer uttered on June 6, 1944, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) prayed “Almighty God: 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….”
These are words the Obama Administration hopes will never be inscripted on the World War II memorial, complaining “any plaque or inscription of prayer would ‘dilute’ the memorial’s central message.” However, contrary to the wishes of the White House and thanks to the support from citizens like you, the US House of Representatives voted 386-26 to add the prayer!
Now the same bill, H.R. 2070 was introduced to the U.S. Senate by Senator Rob Portman (OH), who called for its immediate passage.
Portman said in an official press release, “On D-Day, courageous Americans risked and sacrificed their lives to preserve our freedoms and end tyranny abroad…That morning, President Roosevelt asked our nation to come together to pray for the men overseas. His words brought strength and comfort to many during one of the most challenging times for our nation and will forever be etched in our history.”
Friends, we are one step closer to honoring the Americans who gave their lives in WWII, AND THE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM FOR WHICH THEY FOUGHT AND DIED. However we are no longer in the friendly territory of the Republican controlled House but rather in the Harry Reid-controlled Senate. We must petition all 100 Senators to support this truly wonderful prayer memorial, so generations of Americans will realize how Almighty God answered America’s prayers. We owe it to the memory of every American who paid with his life to protect religious freedom. Please take action with us today…
Guess who’s blocking the FDR Prayer at the WWII Veterans Memorial?
The same Democrat Senator who is pushing for mandatory pro-homosexual lectures to public school kids in all 50 states is now blocking a federal bill to add President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s prayer to the World War II memorial.
Senator Al Franken (D-MN) sits on the committee that is blocking the prayer bill, which is sad because FDR was a Democrat, so Franken’s opposition to the FDR prayer bill can only be explained by his adamant opposition to all religion, period.
It is no coincidence, therefore, that Franken’s legislative partner, the openly homosexual Congressman Jared Polis (D-CO) was one of only 26 Congressmen to vote against the FDR prayer memorial.
After H.R. 2070 the bill to simply engrave FDR’s D-Day prayer on the WWII memorial passed the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly 386-26, it was assigned to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee where it sits on a shelf.
Almost all Democrats favor engraving FDR’s prayer, so why are Franken and Polis so powerful to stop this bill? Because President Obama also initially opposed H.R. 2070.
During the House Committee hearings an Obama Administration officially objected saying FDR’s “prayer would dilute the memorial’s central message.” Sadly the White House even went as far as to mislead Congress saying that the “intrusion” of a prayer on a memorial was “technically prohibited by federal law.” But that’s ridiculous, considering the hundreds of religious artifacts engraved in many places in DC.
But World War II veterans have overwhelmingly supported H.R. 2070. “It is unconscionable that the Obama administration would stand in the way of honoring our nation’s distinguished World War II veterans,” said Rep. Bill Johnson (R-OH). “President Roosevelt’s prayer gave solace, comfort and strength to our nation and our brave warriors as we fought against tyranny and oppression.”
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee has blocked this bill for two months. I say it’s time we call each of 22 Senators, at 202-225-3121, and bury all 100 Senators in fax paper, demanding the FDR prayer be engraved on the WWII memorial.
Here is a list of the Senate Committee members blocking this bill. Call all 22 today!
Democrats — Republicans
Jeff Bingaman — Lisa Murkowski
Ron Wyden — John Barrasso
Tim Johnson — Jim Risch
Mary Landrieu — Mike Lee
Maria Cantwell — Rand Paul
Bernie Sanders — Dan Coats
Debbie Stabenow — Rob Portman
Mark Udall John — Hoeven
Jeanne Shaheen — Dean Heller
Al Franken — Bob Corker
Joe Manchin — Chris Coons
Let’s make 22 phone calls today, or please sign our petition and we will fax all 100 Senators (saving you time…)
FDR’s family wants Prayer Bill to pass Congress. They need our help!
The bill that will add an inscription of the prayer spoken by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) on D-Day to the World War II Memorial on the National Mall has passed the House and awaits action in the U.S. Senate. But FDR’s prayer still faces an uphill battle, and we must act now!
Sadly, the Obama administration opposes honoring prayer, even by a former Democrat President in FDR. The Bureau of Land Management a division of the Department of the Interior Director Robert Abby told the House Committee “the Interior Department opposes its inclusion because it would intrude on the WWII Monument.” Really? President Obama thinks historic prayer speech is an “intrusion” and should be banned?
More sadly, the Obama Administration is trying to argue H.R. 2070 would create a separate memorial commemorating FDR’s prayer. THIS IS A LIE! The bill simply adds the prayer words, to be etched in stone in a blank spot on the existing memorial. It does not create special memorial for a prayer, or cost any more than a simple engraving. Not surprisingly, Obama personally forgot to thank God for His blessings during his Thanksgiving speech, remarking instead how “lucky” we are as a nation.
While this bill has a very good chance to pass the House, it faces trouble in Harry Reid’s liberal anti-Christian Senate. It’s here in the Senate that Obama’s lie about a separate memorial will be used to shoot this bill down or to block it from even getting a vote on the Senate floor. This historic prayer by FDR was offered to God (watch 2-minute video) at one of the defining moments of the greatest generation and in U.S. history. Any monument to victory should honor God as the source of that victory, out of respect for the faith of those who fought WWII, a generation not afraid to bend a knee and pray. President Obama yet again seeks to alter history to fit his socialist, homosexual, humanist, anti-Jesus agenda, and erase God from history!
I got an email last fall from FDR’s relatives, saying: “The family descendants of Franklin DELANO Roosevelt ..namely the DELANO family of Western NY and California along with the DELANO kindred DEMAND the prayer be on our family memorial! We are a family of faith filled patriots to this CHRISTIAN country! In fact I recommend you contact the DELANO family and kindred to protest and write the president and congress on this matter. I will contact Congressman Higgins, but don’t count on ANY help from him or for that matter ANY NY elected official. They are all far left. –Cheryl DELANO”
Thank you Cheryl Delano, and thanks to your family for helping us honor FDR’s prayer. Everybody please help me join Cheryl’s effort to add FDR’s prayer to the WWII memorial!
God banned from Veterans Cemeteries, Hospitals, Schools. Take action!
Freedom of speech to pray publicly “in Jesus name” faces new attacks across America, as the Obama Administration has now fully caved-in to atheist complainers, and helped ban free religious speech from schools to the grave, for teachers and military veterans.
But two new bills before Congress and the Senate could restore religious freedom for Veterans and Teachers, protecting freedom of speech and public prayer rights that generations of Americans have died fighting to protect. They are House Bill H.R. 2848, the “Veterans Religious Freedom Act,” and Senate Bill S.Res.18, a resolution supporting optional public prayer at school board meetings nationwide. Our new petition campaign supports these two important bills.
Recently Veterans Affairs (V.A.) Director Arleen Ocasio was rebuked by a federal judge after she outlawed prayers mentioning “Jesus” or “God” form the National Cemetery in Houston TX. Director Ocasio and the Obama Administration reportedly censored and banned any reference to Jesus or God in prayers, cards, and even casual conversation on V.A. Cemetery grounds, public land. She even turned the Chapel into a storage room!
Ocasio tried to stop heroic Pastor Scott Rainey from praying “in Jesus name,” but he won an emergency court-order stopping the V.A. and restoring his free speech rights. Federal Judge Lynn Hughes ordered the V.A. and Arleen Ocasio, director of the Houston National Cemetery, to stop censoring the pastor’s right to pray “in Jesus name,” since the Obama Administration violated the First Amendment. Judge Hughes wrote: “The government cannot gag citizens when it says it is in the interest of national security, and it cannot do it in some bureaucrat’s notion of cultural homogeneity. The right to free expression ranges from the dignity of Abraham Lincoln’s speeches to Charlie Sheen’s rants.”
Outraged, several pro-faith Republican Congressmen led by Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) have drafted and sponsored the Veteran’s Religious Freedom Act. “It is the constitutional duty of the federal government to protect speech and religion, not prohibit it. Government censorship of funeral services for our veterans is unacceptable, unconstitutional and un-American,” said Congressman Poe. “The policy of the director of the Houston VA Cemetery is anti-Christian, anti-religion and anti-veteran. What has reportedly taken place at the Houston VA Cemetery is inexcusable, and Congress must take immediate action to protect the rights of those who have fought and died for our country.”
This important Veterans Religious Freedom Act, H.R. 2848, provides the Secretary of Veterans Affairs may not:
1) prescribe regulations to censor or otherwise limit the type of religious speech that may be performed by a member of a veterans service organization at the funeral or memorial service of a veteran; or
2) censor or otherwise limit type of religious speech of a private speakers who have been invited to speak on property of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
This bill would force Obama’s Director Ocasio to allow free speech honoring Jesus Christ by family members, invited speakers, pastors, and veterans groups at the graves, not only in Houston but all Veterans cemeteries and hospitals nationwide! Let’s take action now…
Public School Board Meetings also attacked for allowing public prayer by teachers
It’s not just at the grave where public prayer is being attacked. S.Res.18 calls for the Senate to recognize that prayer before school board meetings is a protected act in accordance with the fundamental principles upon which the Nation was founded, and expresses support for allowing the optional practice of prayer at the beginning of the school board meetings. Senator David Vitter (R- LA) first introduced this bill in 2005 but it has been blocked by Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) and lobbyist lawyers from the ACLU. The ACLU has bullied school boards over prayer for decades, with empty threats and bogus lawsuits, often lost but sometimes won by liberal activist judges who hate religious freedom of speech. The time has come to pass S.Res.18 and give conservatives judges the power to support prayer and fight the ACLU.
The ACLU has backed lawsuits against school boards, and criticized us who support school board prayer. Senator Vitter said: “I do not share the ACLU’s opinion, and more importantly, the people of Louisiana do not share the ACLU’s opinion.” Neither does the Supreme Court. In 1983, the U.S. Supreme Court held, in the case of Marsh v. Chambers, that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society, and is fully constitutional. “To invoke divine guidance on a public body entrusted with making the laws is not a violation of the Establishment Clause,” wrote the Supreme Court, “but rather is simply an acknowledgement of beliefs widely held among the American people.”
Sadly, even with the court’s ruling defending prayer, the ACLU has not given up attempts to silence prayer in our schools. With President Obama appointing more and more ungodly, anti-Christian, socialist judges to federal benches, we must encourage our Senators and Congressmen to pass a law protecting what is left of Jesus in public schools: the freedom to speak Jesus’ name in public prayer! Our teachers deserve that freedom, and so do our children deserve God’s blessing. Let’s take action…
Friends, our veterans and teachers deserve the same religious freedom they defend for others. Let’s take a stand today, and demand Congress pass both prayer bills, now!
God Bless you, in Jesus’ name,
Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt, PhD
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P.S. Time is urgent! Both House and Senate have full schedules this fall, so unless we raise their awareness of these three important prayer bills, they may not get the attention they deserve. So please sign our petition today! Prefer to donate by mail? Please mail paper check or money orders to: The Pray In Jesus Name Project, PO Box 77077, Colorado Springs, CO 80970.