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Why is Church Attendance Forbidden in Obama's Youth Brigade?

Here is part of the HR1388 Bill’s wording: SEC. 1304. PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES AND INELIGIBLE ORGANIZATIONS. Section 125 (42 U.S.C. 12575) is amended to read as follows: SEC. 125. PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES AND INELIGIBLE ORGANIZATIONS. (a) Prohibited Activities- A participant in an approved national service position under this subtitle may not engage in the following activities: (1) Attempting to influence legislation. (2) Organizing or engaging in protests, petitions, boycotts, or strikes. (In other words dissent is not allowed nor is dissenting influence.) (7) Engaging in religious instruction, conducting worship services, providing instruction as part of a program that includes mandatory religious instruction or worship, constructing or operating facilities devoted to religious instruction or worship, maintaining facilities primarily or inherently devoted to religious instruction or worship, or engaging in any form of religious proselytization. (Whatever happened to freedom of religion and keeping government OUT of religion? See what's going on ....? Coerced volunteerism is all you hear about - not the devil in the details.) Its the Give Act. Brain. Plain and simple its a subversion of free speech.

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1. Because BO is against any authority that is higher than his own. Therefore, he hates people who believe in God. .
2. attending church and "engaging in religious instruction, conducting worship services, etc" are two completely different things.
3. That doesn't prohibit attending a Church. It does prohibit evangelising, organising or leading a church.
4. Wow, way to misread that. it says that people can't indoctrinate others.
5. What is this bill exactly? Give me a source on what you wrote out, because you putting it here doesn't give me any proof of authority. It would be nice to know the overall context.
6. then i guess acorn members will not be part of the new brigade.
7. What ever happened to keeping religion out of government? I don't think church attendance is forbidden in Obama's youth brigade.
8. ::rolls eyes:: The prohibitions apply only within the context of official duties. Get a grip.
9. Because he hates the Constitution. No freedom to practice religion, no free speech, no right to assemble. Pretty scary stuff, if true.. I fail to see any real difference from prohibiting church attendence and teaching religion if you choose to..
10. Because Obama and his followers see the constitution as an obstacle, rather than the solution. Therefore, they will attack it wherever and however they can. This is why the rest of us must prepare to defend it with the same intensity - NOW!
11. Maybe you should re-read your post. Where does it say "Church Attendance is Forbidden in Obama's Youth Brigade?" It just means you aren't supposed to conduct religious services "on the job' This was put into effect back around 1790 in the First Ammendment,when the Constitution was ratified.
12. Holy CRAP!!! No wonder it's so easy to suck people into fascism - you guys seem to have BIG trouble with plain English!!! "A participant . . . may not engage in . . ." does NOT mean "while on the job." It means these activities are FORBIDDEN across the board. Since "participation" is to be phased into UNIVERSAL and MANDATORY status, it means NO ONE is allowed to do them once the program is fully up and running. Add-on a little fact the average American might be expected to know - "Engaging in religious instruction . . . " etc is nothing more than what most serious church MEMBERS DO; not just sit as an audience for. Your dismissal of the question is FAR, far off mark. How about just answering it as asked since there's nothing wrong with it?
13. Obama learned that from Hitler
14. howling at the moon again?, take a nice nap,
15. You are cherry picking the bill, posting only a portion of the actual statement. that is ok, I understand in your never ending quest to discredit, you will use whatever you can find. Let's put in in prospective. if you work for IBM, and you plan on attending one of the "tea parties", and you go with your IBM lab coat on, and speak in public, you will get fired, because you are representing your company in something that they don't condone. Same thing, if you work or volunteer for the government (same as military people) you can't represent the organization in any outside protest.
16. Go to church on your OWN dime.
17. it would interfere with the brain washing
18. The restriction makes perfect sense. The government will not pay or organize people to spread Islam or Satanism, or even Scientology. That sounds good to me? If you want state supported religion, move to Iran.