By Mitchell Landsberg – President Obama stood before an audience of distinguished Christian clergy and lay leaders and took on the mantle of pastor in chief.
“I have to be careful,” he joked at the White House‘s annual Easter prayer breakfast. “I am not going to stand up here and give a sermon. It’s always a bad idea to give a sermon in front of professionals.”
With that, he gave a sermon.
In a complaint that more secular Americans may see as hairsplitting, the president also has stirred considerable unease over his use of the term “freedom of worship” in lieu of “freedom of religion.” Conservative critics see this as evidence that Obama sees religious freedom as something confined to the relatively narrow sphere of prayer as opposed to a broader exercise of religious life. more> http://tinyurl.com/79ms63f
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