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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-25-10 08:18 AM
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Obama stops service personnel from speaking at faith based
events.

An email I received from a coworker... this is sad and it goes on and on and on.


>>Subj: Religion Next?


----- Original
> .Sent by Retired Vice Admiral Bob Scarborough, of Arlington , Va.
>
> "I wanted to give you all some disturbing information on our wonderful
> president. I work with the Catch-A-Dream Foundation which provides hunting
> and fishing trips to children with life-threatening illnesses. This past
> weekend we had our annual banquet / fundraiser event in Starkville . "As a
> part of our program, we had scheduled Sgt. 1st Class Greg Stube, a highly
> decorated U.S. Army Green Beret and inspirational speaker who was severely
> injured while deployed overseas and didn't have much of a chance for
> survival to come. Greg is stationed at Ft. Bragg , NC and received
> permission from his commanding officer to come speak at our function.
> Everything was on go until Obama made a policy that NO U.S. SERVICEMAN CAN
> SPEAK AT ANY FAITH-BASED PUBLIC EVENTS ANYMORE. Needless to say, Greg had to
> cancel his speaking event with us.. Didn't know if anyone else was aware of
> this new policy. Wonder what kind of news we all will receive next. You're
> just starting<<


Debunked by Snopes though there are still those who want to make this an issue of utter importance.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/faithbased.asp
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-25-10 08:20 AM
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1. Catch a Dream is a religious organization?
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Clovis Sangrail Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-25-10 08:47 AM
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2. most people are pretty gullible
sad but true
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Manifestor_of_Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-25-10 04:57 PM
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3. If the group is a non-profit, they HAVE to be non-partisan and non-political.
I'm talking 501(c)3 orgs. Must not take political or religious stands.

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