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rug

(82,333 posts) Wed Sep 23, 2015, 02:24 PM Sep 2015

Obama to Pope: "We Stand With You In Defense Of Religious Freedom"

Posted on September 23, 2015

PRESIDENT OBAMA: You remind us that people are only truly free when they can practice their faith freely. Here in the United States, we cherish religious liberty. Yet around the world at this very moment, children of God, including Christians, are targeted and even killed because of their faith. Believers are prevented from gathering at their places of worship. The faithful are imprisoned. Churches are destroyed. So we stand with you in defense of religious freedom and interfaith dialogue, knowing that people everywhere must be able to live out their faith free from fear and intimidation.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/09/23/obama_to_pope_we_stand_with_you_in_defense_of_religious_freedom.html

1:19 video at link.

More video here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/campaign/pope-visit

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Obama to Pope: "We Stand With You In Defense Of Religious Freedom" (Original Post) rug Sep 2015 OP

Wonder if they'll both be kind enough to include atheists in their good intentions . . . Journeyman Sep 2015 #1

I don't doubt it for a minute. rug Sep 2015 #2

I'm sure the President is cleanhippie Sep 2015 #3

Journeyman

(15,031 posts)

1. Wonder if they'll both be kind enough to include atheists in their good intentions . . .

Reply to rug (Original post)

Wed Sep 23, 2015, 02:42 PM

Sep 2015

I'm sure everyone would like to live their life free from fear and intimidation of all sorts.

rug

(82,333 posts)

2. I don't doubt it for a minute.

Reply to Journeyman (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 23, 2015, 02:45 PM

Sep 2015

cleanhippie

(19,705 posts)

3. I'm sure the President is

Reply to Journeyman (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 23, 2015, 04:59 PM

Sep 2015

Considering the Pope's stance on homosexuals, equal marriage, and women's rights...

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