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The Missing Jesus & Tea Parties

The 728 seat Gaston Hall was completed nearly a decade after the building itself was completed is named for Georgetown University’s first student. Gaston has welcomed numerous heads of state, international leaders, and religious dignitaries, but until this week, no one had demanded that any of the rare murals, frescoes, and symbols of Jesus be left out, remove, or covered up.

The White House though asked Georgetown to cover a monogram symbolizing Jesus’ name in Gaston Hall, which Obama used for his speech, according to CNSNews.com. The gold “IHS” monogram inscribed on a pediment in the hall was covered over by a piece of black-painted plywood, and remained covered during Barack Obama’s speech.

I guess it’s proof once more that America is not a Christian nation as Obama said while in Europe last week.  

Julie Bataille from the university’s press office e-mailed me that the White House had asked that all university signage and symbols behind the stage in Gaston Hall be covered. “The White House wanted a simple backdrop of flags and pipe and drape for the speech, consistent with what they’ve done for other policy speeches,” she wrote. “Frankly, the pipe and drape wasn’t high enough by itself to fully cover the IHS and cross above the GU seal and it seemed most respectful to have them covered so as not to be seen out of context.”

Ah, now I understand. NOT!

It seems to me that the sensitivity that Obama showed to the Muslim community last week while in Turkey could be extended to Christian community here in America where he serves as president. But of course, Barack Obama is president and everything must be done to further the Democratic agenda. Hold you fire! Republicans do what’s to their advantage as well. Right now, the left is in charge so that’s the way it is.

As someone said, if six people show up wearing PINK attire, it gets national press coverage; however, when tens of thousands show up across the nation protesting and throwing Tea Parties, mainstream media largely ignores it. Fox though did cover it and as a result the FoxNews ratings went through the roof. Brent Bozell, president of the conservative Media Research Center, said the media coverage was “insulting,” reacting specifically to CNN reporter Susan Roesgen’s combative interviews with Illinois demonstrators in which she declared that the protests were “anti-CNN” and supported by FOX News.

Politics is politics and if you can’t stand the heat in the kitchen, eat outside. 

About the Author

As a spiritual-futurist, I have a BA degree majoring in history. One cannot know the future without knowing the past which holds clues to what is on the horizon. The world is in such a rapid expansion of knowledge that we are close to entering a tipping point that will forever change earth as we know it.

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