Pastors Hold Vigil Outside Ground Zero to Protest Lack of Clergy at 9/11 Ceremony
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A police car sits at a security check-point outside St. Paul’s Chapel on Broadway in preparation for the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on Sept. 9, 2011 in New York City. (Photo credit: CBS New York)
NEW YORK (The Blaze/AP) — Carrying bibles and singing “Amazing Grace,” a group of pastors knelt on the street outside ground zero on Saturday to protest New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s decision not to include a clergy-led prayer in the ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
The group of about 50 pastors and supporters prayed outside the chain-link fence around the site as police and National Guard troops carrying shotguns and combat rifles watched from a distance. Protesters said they felt shut out of Sunday’s memorial service.
“Many of us served here after the attacks, and we know the importance of prayer and the presence of clergy,” said Rev. Rob Schenck, an evangelical pastor. “To exclude them from the ceremony was hurtful.”
Thousands of people have signed a petition asking for a formal prayer at Sunday’s ceremony, but Bloomberg has said it would be impossible to include all the religious leaders who would like to participate. His office says the ceremony will include readings that are “spiritual and personal in nature” and that there will be six minutes of silence for personal reflection or silent prayer.
Bloomberg defended the decision on his weekly radio show Saturday.
“It’s a civil ceremony. There are plenty of opportunities for people to have their religious ceremonies,” Bloomberg said. “Some people don’t want to go to a religious ceremony with another religion. And the number of different religions in this city are really quite amazing.”
City officials are also keen to avoid the religious conflicts that have flared around ground zero in recent years.
Plans to build a mosque in lower Manhattan angered ignited protests last year, and in July an atheist group sued to keep the September 11 Memorial and Museum from exhibiting a cross that was formed when girders broke from the collapsing World Trade Center.
Some leaders, including Catholic Archbishop Timothy Dolan and the New York Board of Rabbis, have said they agree with Bloomberg’s decision. Worshipers are welcome at dozens of religious services around the city, they say.
But the Southern Baptist Convention, the Catholic League, the Family Research Council and other religious groups say barring clergy from the ceremony ignores the central role that religious groups played during the Sept. 11 attacks and the recovery afterward.
One of the victims of the attacks, Michael Judge, was a fire department chaplain who was killed by a falling body while performing last rites for the dead. A Greek Orthodox church was destroyed.
Churches around the country donated tons of supplies for relief workers, and an Episcopal congregation allowed rescue workers to operate out of St. Paul’s Chapel for months.
Clergy performed thousands of funerals and dozens of memorial services, including an interfaith ceremony at Yankee Stadium. Individual church members pitched in to help feed and support the families of the dead.
“The American public wants prayer at this event,” said Fernando Cabrera, a New York City councilman and pastor of a church in the Bronx. Cabrera said he collected 100,000 names for a petition asking for a formal prayer.
“They could have had different faiths offering prayer, and it would have been a beautiful message to send to the world,” he said.
Passers-by were divided on Bloomberg’s decision.
“I think it’s terrible,” said Sarah Cavanagh, of Bayside, Queens. “It’s Sunday. It‘s God’s day.”
But others felt it was a wise choice, noting that religious hatred helped motivate the Sept. 11 hijackers.
“Religion got us into this problem in the first place, so I think it’s OK,” said Lisa Gianforte, 30, a tourist from Chicago. “A moment of reflection can be a spiritual moment or a nonspiritual moment to each person.”
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Comments (163)
Sara72
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 2:57pmFLASH MOB OF FAITH….Who else will join them? I wish I was in NY…. I would be with them!
Report Post »Zcat
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 3:06pmMe too! Bloombeerg is anti-God, and anti America. The people of NY got what they voted for!!! Shame on Bloomberg!
Report Post »Bro Geo Too
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 3:07pmFlash Mob of Faith–great idea, Sara. I, too, wish I could be there for that. Any of you Blazer who are close may want to give it a try.
Report Post »Jim in Houston
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 3:25pmLove it!
Report Post »RoseAnnaDanna
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 3:54pmSee post at bottom of page 1 for who might join Flash Mob.
Report Post »randy
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 4:27pmDEAR BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE NYPD AND NYFD AND THOSE FROM OTHER STATES THAT TRAVELED AND HELP THE SURVIVERS;
Don’t feel so bad that you were not invited to the memorial at the ”WORLD TRADE CENTER 911′…..Neither was I.
Your Friend,
‘GOD’
Report Post »honestynow
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 4:35pmGreat idea.
Report Post »Take your Bibles, belt out some hymns, all synchronized (not to interrupt speakers, except maybe Bloomberg). Wish I could be there.
chazman
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 5:28pm… American Patriot’s have a lot of enemies …
Report Post »powhatan
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 7:21pmme too!
Report Post »ghostsouls
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 11:03pmQuick, someone start a facebook page for the event. Flashmob 9/11 Prayer! Excellent idea. this will also show that flash mobs can be used for more than crime.
Report Post »libertylover55
Posted on September 11, 2011 at 1:26amNot a good idea. Think about it with your head instead of your emotions. We need to be mature about this and not “get back at them” for slighting us. It’s like a couple of kids trying to pick a fight. Let the left show how “little” they are, but we need to take the higher road as Jesus would. Let it alone, please!
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on September 11, 2011 at 11:01amIt’s hard to believe that the result of religious hatred that killed so many has itself become a testimony for that hatred by denying the inclusion of Christian faith in deference to the very people whose “religion” was the catalyst for this attack!
The paradox and the irony are stifling, and resemble a bad episode of the Twilight Zone. This is not America any more. In a manor of speaking, you could say they have already won the war to islamize America. They have most definitely won the heart and mind of the mayor.
Report Post »mycomet123
Posted on September 11, 2011 at 12:37pmIf Archbishiop Timothy Dolan agrees with Bloomberg –My personnal feeling is to hell with the both of you!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 2:56pmWonderful indeed for the stand they are making against the administrations PC-radicalism of insanity in the nation. I am suprised though that Homeland Security did not come screaming in with police and troops to arrest and detain permanently the 50 people of which the members of Christianity who peacefully assemble, in the past, have been called “Domestic Threats and Terrorists.”
Report Post »piper60
Posted on September 11, 2011 at 7:07pmMy thoughts, exactly
Report Post »SlimnRanger
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 2:55pmOne thing for sure is the Good Lord will have the final say and all that deny him shall be denied
Report Post »mule creek ridge
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 2:54pmTo Lisa Gianforte I say: It does not surprise me you are from the same city as that chitown ,jivea**, hustler in the WH.
IMO you both need a brain scan.
I wish you pastors peace of mind and GOOD Days ahead!!!!!!! Thanks for making a statement that helps emphasize Mr. Bloombergs cowardly BS.
Report Post »JoMalibu
Posted on September 11, 2011 at 2:07amMule Creek—would like to set the record straight since I’m also from Chicago. NOT ALL of us voted for the man in the WH.
Report Post »Hisemiester
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 2:53pmIt’s good. If all christians stay away from the site during this ceremony, maybe Islamic terrorists will hit the assembly and kill all non christians. Eliminate alot of head ache for America that way.
Report Post »Too much is made in this twin tower incident. This nation is a wimp and can only look at this and whine. It will not/can not do what is necessary to do away with the Islam threat. So it turns to the Look what they did to me. The came into my country club and hurt me. What sick ships americans have become. For me, I would have rounded up all Muslums in this country and sent them somewhere out of this country. Until America and western culture wakes up and sees its true enemy the country will continue to fall. Our president is now a Muslum, so how do you defend against this enemy?.
American Soldier (Separated)
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 3:01pmYou know, those Muslim Americans you hate so much pay taxes, work hard and provide for their family like any one else in America. You are no better than them, them no better than you. This is possibly one of the most disgusting things I’ve read on the Blaze in a long time…
Report Post »fedupv2
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 4:16pmAS (S)
Report Post »You are one of the most dispicable posters I have seen. Tell me the religion that is killing our soldiers and most of the people in the world right now? You probably don’t care because of your thought process; which I don’t think is an ideology. Only hate for what you do not care to research and understand.
W@nd@
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 5:01pmPsalm 91 1 and reading..”He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High, abides in the shadow of the Almighty”…There is none greater than He who created all that we can see, all we cannot see and all that we cannot fathom! But we live in the secret place, protected by the Most High God! I fear NO one..for I know in whom i have believed, put my faith in, in whom i trust…with everything!
Report Post »Natzi’s cannot defeat, muslims cannot defeat, communists cannot defeat and politically correct progressives can not lay low…“Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world” (system). We can say the truth strongly with no fear..for God will defend protect and handle the light work..(punishing those that work to harm His own)…those who are godless or full of hateful deeds..He is our bullwork, our attorney, our Savior, and our God…Stand for truth and God will Himself rectify…Be bold in the Lord..one with God is an Army! So you see, we ourselves NEVER have to take these matters into our own hands…we just take these matters and place them into HIS hands! We can say a truth and walk in love, being stong in the might of the Lord…He is our Victory! So I know sometimes we feel the pressure to step in and help God out…it is NOT necessary for He is well able to do exceedingly abundant above all we can ask or think! So let go and let God my friend..Hisemiester He already has your back!
antrancher
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 7:23pmAmerican Soldier (Separated?)
Report Post »All day long I have been listening to people talk about how 9-11 changed thier lives. Bin Ladin set out to destroy America from within. Death of a thousand cuts… He sent us Obama!
I also read that Muslims were invited to the event at the Kennedy Center tomorrow! What is with that. Would you apoligize and open your home and heart to someone who savagly murdered your child?? Your mother?? Your father?? your brother??. Have a big memorial to honor them?
Islam is not a religion of Peace. There is no such thing! It is a lie! It is Taqiyya! Wake up America and get rid of these imposters. This administration is a farce and has divided this country. Vote him out along with the rest of his mob of imposters. Take the union thugs with him!
God Bless America. Have your own memorial. Don’t go to New York! Ever!
ghostsouls
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 11:05pmWhy does this guys name remind me of Hitler….his name sounds like a neonazi….
Report Post »Rapture2012
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 11:17pmwith love…
Report Post »ilovepotatoes
Posted on September 11, 2011 at 9:47pmim with American Soldier here. I cant say more hate is how to overcome our differences. Anyone who is not Christian should be rounded up and shipped out of the country? If this place sucks so bad why can’t YOU leave
Report Post »Ples12
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 5:44pmWell said. Instead of crying and feeling sorry for themselves and everyone else, they should turn to Jesus Christ and put on the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. They should praise the Lord every day and ask Him to turn the evi onto the heads of the ungodly people who invaded our country. The we should all demand that all Muslims be deported and bring all our people from Arab countries and forbid them to ever go there again. We need our precious troops here to work and pay fair taxes so we can get out from under China‘s and Obama’s thumbs and to defend our own country. I hope there are enough good intelligent people to vote Obama out of office.
Report Post »MUDFLAPS
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 2:52pmNew York!!! wake up and remember how bloomturd treated the first responders this year when you go to the ballot box. Make him pay by adding him to the list of the unemployed!!!
Report Post »FreedomMissMeYet
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 2:47pmNo Religion? What? There’s a religion accepted down there all right. It’s called Secular Humanism and Washington sanctions it. It worships man’s intellect and teaches there is no absolute right and wrong – whatever your conscience can stand. Forget about “Thou shall not…”, it’s up to you to decide.
What these snakes knowingly ignore is this country runs on the Judean-Christian principles that built it. Of the 55 Founders, ~40 were Clergymen of CHRISTIANITY. They embedded Christian Principles in our laws and it has proven itself in the blessings America has realized. And make no mistake, our DNA is not compatible w/ Paganism, Aetheism, Secular Humanism, and Radical Islam. They do not “Coexist” like that stupid bumper sticker says.
“Separation of Church and State” is NOT in the Constitution. When Jefferson declared it, ‘Church’ meant denomination, like Catholic, Baptist, etc — NOT Christianity!! What he was saying was ‘Separation of (i.e the Catholic Church) and State”. Unless we reclaim those Founding Christian PRINCIPLES, we will continue to fall into an abyss that will destroy us.
Report Post »Ari Ben TZion
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 2:50pmBloomberg is one of my favorite self-hating jews.
Report Post »American Soldier (Separated)
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 3:04pmThomas Jefferson was not an idiot and if he wanted to MEAN the separation of the Catholic Church and the State, he would have said it. Many of our founders and those around them escaped from religious persecution, correct? Why would they create a system of government that would be left open to religion to take over government, to become exactly what they escaped from? Sure, many of you hypocrites here would see no problem with them wanting something like that. It’s fine to have a theocracy, as long as it‘s YOUR religion that’s in charge. Thankfully, the founders didn’t allow that to happen, regardless of how hard you want to believe they did.
Report Post »honestynow
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 4:38pmYep.
Report Post »And ABT, Soros is another.
FreedomMissMeYet
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 5:50pmWhat’s the matter, does the truth get in the way of what YOU want to believe?
He meant what he said and said what he meant. He said “Church” in our language and context of the day.
He said it in response to a Baptist Church in CT that expressed concern about the First Amendment. They thot it was dangerous that The First Amendment may imply that the church actually got it’s power from the Govt to begin with, as opposed to Inalienable Rights from Our Creator. He of course concurred in his letter about the inalienable rights and went on to concur saying that there was a “wall of separation between the Church and State”. He did not say the State would not use Judean-Christian Principles.
The DNA of our gov’t just so happens to be founded on Judean-Christian Principles. The use of “God” in Gov‘t was challenged at least twice in the 1800’s in the Supreme Courts and upheld because they understood what he meant by ‘church’. Churches are where different denominations congregate around their Principles. The US happens to use Judean-Christian Principles.
So why don’t you just enlighten us, which one of the “Thou Shall Nots…” do you really hate?
Report Post »TheGreyPiper
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 9:01pmHey AS(S)hole, you do know that for many years after ratification and adoption of the Constitution – including the Bill of Rights – a lot of the individual states actually did have official established churches? I disagree with one of the other posters; the 1st Am. was intended to preclude and official established national church, such as still exists in Britain ( and, for that, matter, in a number of European nations, for which they seem none the worse), where different denominations are legally of secondary status, and the clergy of the established church are a part of the government. If you did not know, bishops of the C of E sit in the House of Lords, and of course the reigning monarch is the temporal head of the church.
Still, it was only after the Civil War, with the 14th Am. and “Incorporation,“ that the phrase ”Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” was even applied to the states, and (much later) the original meaning and intent began to be warped into the shape leftards like you would like to see.
Report Post »ilovepotatoes
Posted on September 11, 2011 at 9:58pmthis is crazy! i thought the country was founded on FREEDOM from religion. Why do all Christians think anyone who isn’t christian is blind or stupid or something. . . it must say it in the bible, huh…
Report Post »IowaWoman
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 5:38am“ilovepotatoes
Posted on September 11, 2011 at 9:58pm
this is crazy! i thought the country was founded on FREEDOM from religion. Why do all Christians think anyone who isn’t christian is blind or stupid or something. . . it must say it in the bible, huh…”
This is the stupid part: FREEDOM from religion/ It is freedom OF religion. It is your lack of knowledge that implies that you are blind or stupid or something. . . not because it must say it in the bible, huh…
Report Post »Since you now know the country was founded on freedom OF religion, care to debate your premise?
godlovinmom
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 2:43pmKind of off topic..But..did you hear Bush speak at Flight 93 memorial…quoted a few bible verses…I believe came straight from his heart…unlike obama who can barely muster saying “In God We Trust”and then clinton stood up there and gave his political speech…I miss President Bush!
Report Post »MNYukon
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 4:43pmObama wouldn’t recognize a bible verse if he heard one. Does Bloomberg know what the Torah is? Has Obma and Bloomberg ever heard of Jesus Christ – Lord of all – King of Kings.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 6:12pmAMEN !
Claiming this is a “civil ceremony” is just bull crap !
This should be THE PEOPLE’S CEREMONY !
This is not about GOVERNMENT or about POLITICIANS – but – as is ALWAYS the case,
they seem to think EVERYTHING is about THEM !!!
This is about those who DIED. This is about GRIEVING FAMILIES !
This is NOT about GOVERNMENT !
You got it right – we should have kept GOVERNMENT OUT of the MEMORIAL ! ! !
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jakartaman
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 2:36pmJust goes to show you – you don’t have to be smart to be rich.
Report Post »What’s is Mikey trying to prove? no religion -no first responders – Just Politicians WTF
truthseekerusa
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 2:36pmYoung people are leaving New York in droves. Pretty smart folks to get away from politicians like Bloomberg and the rest of the Democrats that are destroying it.
Escape from New York is not just a movie – it’s also a state of mind.
A new Marist College poll shows that 36% of New Yorkers under the age of 30 are planning to leave New York within the next five years – and more than a quarter of all adults are planning to bolt the Empire State.
http://www.urbanskishow.com/b/Young-People-Leaving-New-York-in-Droves/-477955820057321027.html
The New York City suburbs, with their high property values and taxes, are leading the exodus, the poll found.
Of those preparing to leave, 62% cite economic reasons like cost of living, taxes – and a lack of jobs.
Report Post »FreedomMissMeYet
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 6:25pmRight on…Escape from NY… like trying to escape from hell…
Of the 8 Million people living in NYC, only about 45,000 pay the majority of the taxes to keep the place going…after the continued exodus, maybe we’ll see them bulldoze sections of NYC and turn it into farmland like Detroit…maybe some Unified Worship the Green Mother Earth Project…right out of the pages of Babylon…
Report Post »chazman
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 6:46pmI’ve heard a gallon of milk in Manhatten is over $8 bucks! I don‘t know if that’s true, but why wouldn’t it be? NYC is Liberal Marxist hell! I wouldn’t blame anyone for leaving that Godless city …
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 11:01pmya but they bring their lefty progressive cr@p with them when they leave
Report Post »smartgirl
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 2:26pmBy the way, good for the pastors who are demonstrating.
Report Post »Ditto Head
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 2:52pmHey, I’ve got an idea! How about these “Pastors” have congregational remembrence ceremonies at their respective churches on Sunday and come to grips with the fact that they’re not welcome at the WTC site ceremony in an official capacity. My pastor isn’t whining about it. He understands that New York is what it is, i.e., The Sewer Hole of America, and Sewer Holes are full of, and run by, smelly turds who abhor that which is clean. Hey “Pastors”, if you’re copying this transmission, realize that you can’t clean The Sewer Hole by jumping into it, you’ll just defile yourselves. Oh, wait, are you the same pastors who thought that adding Christ to the devils music would clean the music? Understand that you don’t add pure to corrupt and expect corrupt to be purified. You keep the pure SEPARATE SEPARATE SEPARATE from the corruption and it stays pure!!! Practice what you pretend to believe!!!
Report Post »Azreal
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 3:36pmseperate is one thing. Retreat is another. Arent we called to be salt and light? Exactly how does salt sting a wound if kept seperate?
It isnt a matter of practicing what you preach, its a FUNDAMENTAL difference in approach and tactics.
Seperate just makes you irrelevant. That’s how we got to this point. Keep sitting there playing guitars and waiting on Jesus. What did he save you to do? Sit and wait?
Report Post »fedupv2
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 3:59pmDitto what you say is stupid; and I do not think I have to ask forgiveness for the remark because you are stupid.
Report Post »smartgirl
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 2:26pmMichael Bloomberg is wrong. He won‘t take a stand on anything and that’s why the site has met so much opposition from so many places. The only thing he took a stand on was the Muslim’s right to build “Cordoba” – CORDOBA no less – on the site. They won’t even let the Greek church, there prior to 9/11 rebuild. We‘re in a war and the mayor of the world’s greatest city has his head up his…
Report Post »Monica2
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 2:23pmThe only religion the left would welcome to ground zero is the self same one that motivated the terrorists, they can’t invite them lest they offend the grieving familes so they omit any reference to religions.
Report Post »Ples12
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 6:17pmOur politicians have forsaken the law of the Lord, therefore, God may have sent the Islamics and may send more, against us as He sent Shishak, king of Egypt against Jerusalem when Rehoboam, king of Israel, and also Israel transgressed against the Lord. ll Chronicles 13:1-7.
Report Post »ll Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. God loves us. All we have to do is return to Him and acknowledge Him in all our ways.
banjarmon
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 2:17pmRoseAnnaDanna
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 1:55pm
@AllenWestRepub is promoting on twitter: MUST GO VIRAL Ground Zero Memorial FLASH SINGING http://t.co/o1Kn84F #amazinggrace
I sent this to everyone on my Contact list!!!
Report Post »Benetto
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 3:13pmSince I can’t be there… I will be singing it while he is giving his speech on TV…. I hope everyone will sing LOUD and I pray thousands of people show up to sing it.
Report Post »RoseAnnaDanna
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 4:00pmThank you. I hope it happens.
Report Post »honestynow
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 4:41pmHope to see it live on TV!
Report Post »username112973
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 2:15pmBloomberg is against American 1st Amendment right to Free Speech ane Bloomberg is against Americans 2nd Amendment right to Bear Arms. He’s a billionaire elitist who believes in Big Government (nanny state) and the New World Order. New Yorkers are just stupid, that’s all!!!
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 2:15pmSince the GITMO trials couldn’t be held in NY court, Bloomberg decided to make it up to the Feds
Report Post »by shoving this agenda stained mockery in the faces of American clergy and victims of radicals whose flags he proudly salutes.
The GITMO detainees were to be used to implicate the US in any imaginary crime their lawyers could come up with. But since that didn’t materialize, another way to cower before Islam had to be realized. This is it. This is hand in hand with the administrations agenda.
SREGN
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 2:10pmDeny God’s presence at your peril.
Report Post »Pujols
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 2:16pmThat’s the only Ceremony I would take part in New York.
Report Post »Stehekin912
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 2:07pmDon’t be there to protest. Be there to be present for honor and the glory of God, the memory of the fallen, the selfless of those who helped, the grief of the suffering, the compassion and love of people who fight terrorism, and the people who love and care for their fellowman and for freedom. Protest demeans what you do. Be there to pray and praise God despite those who would silence people of faith. Religion didn’t “get us here in the first place”. Extremism did. And never forget there can be a difference between religion and faith. Religion is an expression of faith, not faith itself. The more religions band together, the more clearly and strongly public faith is expressed and the more difficult it is for it to be silenced.
Do not protest. Be present in faith. As the song says, Pray, oh pray. My brothers, my sisters, pray. For the Father is listening when you pray. So pray.
Report Post »drphil69
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 2:07pmGod Bless Them!!
At the memorial service in NYC, Mayor Bloomberg announced that there will be no prayer. Apparently God has no place at a memorial service. Shortly after the mayor announced this, the White House came out with “talking points,” they are not to mention it was Muslims, they are not to mention that ONLY the United States of America was attacked.
NOW we find out that the FIRST RESPONDERS, the HEROES of 9/11, the brave souls that ran into the burning, collapsing buildings of the World Trade Center, to save the lives of other Americans, ARE NOT INVITED!
THAT’S RIGHT, THERE IS NO ROOM FOR OUR HEROES OR GOD AT THE MEMORIAL SERVICE, ONLY ROOM FOR MAYOR BLOOMBERG AND HIS POLITICAL FRIENDS.
I for one will not be watching some Godless memorial where a bunch of politicians gather to bring notice to themselves when God and the Heroes of that day are not welcome. Please join me in ignoring this farce of a memorial, and instead say a silent prayer for the deceased and survivors of that day.
Report Post »PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 2:06pmSo, Bloomberg can dance with the devil. Evil hearts and Minds did this deed; not Faith. And NO, I don’t consider Islam a faith; it is a gross perversion of the one truth.
Report Post »Sara72
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 3:24pmIslam is NOT a religon it is a political ideology and it being used by many …including Bloomberg to cut real religon out of society… because if we WONT have them, then we cant have ours!
Report Post »truthseekerusa
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 2:05pmBloomberg supports Obama’s socialistic, pro-Muslim policies so who would expect anything different from him. New Yorkers should be hanging their heads in shame for electing this man and others like Wiener.
Report Post »Azreal
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 2:05pminteresting its a 30 year old idiot from Chicago that thinks that religion is what got us into this.
Its disgusting to see that people are so intolerant of religion…and they consider themselves tolerant.
Its the contradiction of the last 20 years, brought on by the “progressive” (read communist) idea of politically correct.
I’m intolerant of people who are intolerant of the faith that founded these United States. And I really don’t give a care who is offended by that.
Im not a stranger passing through a strange land. Christians built this society, and I refuse to be shoved to the side in the land that was blessed by our God.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on September 11, 2011 at 12:47amre : Im not a stranger passing through a strange land. Christians built this society, and I refuse to be shoved to the side in the land that was blessed by our God.
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Emphasis on “WAS” I seem to remember there are Blessings and Curses for keeping His covenants, and we sure don’t seem to be getting those blessings now!
“If My people, who are called by My name will repent…, and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from Heaven and heal his nation.”
THE ONE GREAT HOPE FOR AMERICA AND ISRAEL!
philabarb
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 1:57pmIt’s time for the Clergy and their member to be more ,active!!!! Soon you wouldn’t able to mention God in your own homes. It’s time to become more active before we lose our right to pray.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 2:08pmIt isn‘t Bloomberg’s memorial service .. I don’t understand why the families are letting him get away with this .. unless they are afraid that they too will be “uninvited”. Bloomberg must not win … way to go CLERGY!
TEA!
Report Post »lylejk
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 1:55pmAgain, why do you NYers keep voting this idiot in. Or are you idiots too? Beginning to wonder. :)
Report Post »Azreal
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 2:06pmjust one more reason I will never go to New York or EVR spend a single dime there.
People are fleeing it in droves.
Keep voting Mayor Doomberg in, morons. I hope your city crumbles around you.
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 8:51pmThe Same voters who brought you Andrew Wiener, Charlie Rangel, Adam Clayton Powell, and Hilrod Clinton.
Report Post »RoseAnnaDanna
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 1:55pm@AllenWestRepub is promoting on twitter: MUST GO VIRAL Ground Zero Memorial FLASH SINGING http://t.co/o1Kn84F #amazinggrace
Report Post »KASHA
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 2:14pmPosted this to my FB page.
Report Post »CulperGang
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 11:00amthis would have been a good idea…….but impossible to accomplish. there was wall to wall cops they would have shut them down immediately.
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