On February 3^rd of this year an Administrative Court Judge in Georgia, Michael Molihi, dismissed three separate challenges to President Barack Obama’s eligibility to appear on Georgia’s ballot in the 2012 Presidential election based on claims that President Obama is not a “naturally born citizen” of the United States of America.

            Noting that usually if a defendant does not appear to answer to legal proceedings, as President Obama and his attorneys had done in the Georgia case, a default judgment would be entered in favor of the plaintiffs but the plaintiffs had requested that the case be heard “on its merits” and Judge Molihi decided those merits were completely bogus and dismissed the case. Georgia’s Secretary of State, Brian Kemp, has certified President Obama to appear on the ballot in that state but an outfit known as the “Liberty Legal Foundation” run by attorney and failed Republican Congressional candidate from Tennessee, Von Irion, has filed an appeal with Georgia’s primary slated for March 6^th.

            The day before Judge Molihi rendered his ruling, at the National Prayer Breakfast, Republican Georgia Congressman, Phil Gingrey up and walked out on President Obama’s speech after President Obama stated that his economic goals comported with Christ’s admonition, “For unto whom much is given, much shall be required.”

            Through a spokesperson, Jen Taleber, Representative Gingrey, who has thrown his political support behind fellow Georgia Peach, Newt Gingrich, to be the Republican’s nominee to oppose President Obama in the 2012 elections, responded that he thought President Obama’s remarks were, “inappropriate,” and that Gingrey had, “wanted to hear what was in his heart, not his campaign rhetoric,” although, through his spokesperson, he did commend the President, like a five-year-old at Sunday School, “for his attendance.”

            Lately I have noticed the name “Jeremiah Wright” creeping back into the public discourse, culminating in Rick Santorum whining recently that the media has a “double standard” for not holding President Obama responsible for the words of his former pastor while making hay of Santorum supporter Foster Freiss’ lame, but revealing, stale joke about the cheapest form of contraception is an aspirin between women’s knees even though from Santorum’s public remarks it seems as if he and his Sugar Daddy Freiss are of the same mind when it comes to contraception and when it comes to women. Santorum then had to turn around days later and distance himself from remarks made by his puddin’ faced new Press Secretary, Alice Stewart, formerly of the ill-fated Michele Bachmann campaign, got her talking points confused and went on Mrs. Alan Greenspan’s television show and tried to explain that by his recent “phony theology” statement, Rick Santorum was actually referring to President Obama’s, “radical Islamic policies.”

            Then we have the odious Franklin Graham, who has falsely alleged that President Obama was born a Muslim and that the Muslim Brotherhood, “has infiltrated every level of government,” under President Obama, slithering to the surface claiming that he doesn’t know or not whether President Obama is a Christian though he is willing to take the word of Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich that they are Christians. Instead of backing away from these comments, Franklin Graham doubled down on them, calling President Obama “a son of Islam” and alleging that Islam has gotten a “free pass” under the Obama administration no matter what Osama bin Laden or Muammar Gaddafi might say, if they were still alive to speak, but Franklin Graham ignores this.

            Today in the local Bloomington Herald Times newspaper there was printed a letter to the editor from a woman characterizing President Obama’s mandate the insurance companies cover contraception with no co-pay as, “an unprecedented assault on the freedom of conscious of millions of Americans.” In the Reader’s Comment section, regionalized Right Wing gadfly, Scott Tibbs, asserted that, “Obama continues to force his religion (Molech worship) on the nation.” 

            Ironically, with the Catholic Church leading the charge that President Obama has began a war on religion, this administration has given the Catholic Church’s Catholic Charities three-quarters of a billion dollars in grants over the past year alone even though I may object to my tax dollars going to pay settlements for the crimes of the Catholic hierarchy, even indirectly, but my freedom of conscious regarding this matter just doesn’t seem to register.

Hopefully these attacks on the President’s faith will backfire and Citizens will begin to realize what a frightening place the Radical Evangelicals and Fundamentalist Catholics have been working to take us, with increasing success, since Jimmy Carter was elected in 1976; and, brick by brick, rebuild the wall separating the secular and the divine and perhaps, in the near future, instead of a National Prayer Breakfast, we can all sit down to a National Unity Brunch.