President Barack Obama is under fire this week after a speech he gave in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in which he labeled Catholic education “divisive" and likened them to segregated schools in the Deep South.
Obama’s comments have not only angered Catholics in Northern Ireland, but have put him at odds with the Vatican’s highest authorities in what remains an extremely complex and sensitive internal political dispute.
In comments that the Scottish Catholic Observer called “alarming” and “unfounded,” Obama implied that tensions between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland would be eliminated if there were no separation between Catholic and Protestant schools.
“Issues like segregated schools and housing, lack of jobs and opportunity — symbols of history that are a source of pride for some and pain for others — these are not tangential to peace; they’re essential to it,” Obama said.
Yup. Catholic schools. They cause social discord, according to the prez. And Mr. Obama didn't spare protestant schools when he made his remarks in Northern Ireland.
"If towns remain divided -- if Catholics have their schools and buildings, and Protestants have theirs -- if we can’t see ourselves in one another, if fear or resentment are allowed to harden, that encourages division. It discourages cooperation," said the president as he addressed a gathering of Northern Irish youth.
It appears the president thinks things are much better in America where most kids attend government schools where the state can control the subject and manner of indoctrination.
If Obama's so bold to snip at faith-based schools in Northern Ireland, what's it say about his view of church-affiliated schools in America. How about home schoolers?
Will those who violate the president's view of universal government education be increasingly targeted as he and his administration (and perhaps subsequent administrations) move forward with so-called fundamental change in America?
Yes indeed, Obama the marxist view the atheistic education system as number 1.
ReplyDeleteNumber 1 in brain-washing the sheeple that is.