Obama Youth Brigade: Church Attendance Forbidden
Read More: I don't know if this is the right place to post this article. So if I've broken the rules, I apologize. Since we are a group of people wanting to share important information that can affect others lives, this will affect many lives.
Since what our elected Government Officials are preparing to do this month could impact your family, I think you’ll want to read this.
This is from The Voice Magazine... by Jonas Clark
Is this the change you really voted for? President Obama has only been in office for two months. Now we have HR 1388. The Bill was sponsored by Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) with 37 others. The Bill was introduced to the floor of the House of Representatives where both Republicans and Democrats voted 321-105 in favor. Next it goes to the Senate for a vote and then on to President Obama.
This bill’s title is called “Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education” (GIVE). It forms what some are calling “Obama’s Youth Brigade.” Obama’s plan is require anyone receiving school loans and others to serve at least three months as part of the brigade. His goal is one million youth! This has serious Nazi Germany overtones to it.
The Bill would forbid any student in the brigade to participate in “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.” That means no church attendance or witnessing.
(Does this mean if your son or daughter receive a student loan for college they can't go to church for Three Months?)
Again, is this what America voted for? 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.
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(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.
My comment: The intent of the bill may have merit, but the language is concerning.
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My personal thoughts
I must warn lol that I am an Obama supporter and I am going to attempt to clarify the bill from my understanding as I am very supportive of it.
The point of the bill is to encourage community service. Increasing help among the youth will create a ripple effect of nationalism but in a healthy sense. And the point of not participating in religious affairs is skewed. The participants cannot create religious events or create a link between community service and religion by themselves, unless they work with a church community as a partner. Naturally they can go to their own religious affairs but the point is to keep religion and state separate. It would increase separation among peers due to different religious backgrouns, therefore if everyone wa sjust focused on one thing, nationalism, there would be no separation at all.
Thus those who participate for three months, which in my opinion is a summer work of going to a food shelter and helping out a few hours a day, and they will recieve college aid for their work. This is suppose to increase enrollment in universities as many (like myself as I am recovering college grad) have debts up to our ears for decades because of the costs of tuition, plus books, plus room and board, food, and myabe mom and dad we woul dlike to go uot and have fun. These all add up and this is suppose to create relief for families and students, and at the same time bring communities together in helping each other and other communities and causes.
This is by no means a hint of hitlerism at all because one, the Nazi party was to focus on ridding those of Jewish fate or who "did not fit in" while this bill proposes everyone of all faiths and backgrounds to come together and work to strengthen their communities.
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Thanks for expressing your view of the Bill.
I had two concerns as a Christian, one being will the bill prevent someone from going to church while they are in the 3 month service program? The other is will those in college on student loan get them extended if they don't go into the program?
I think community service is a wonderful thing, but if the language isn't clear this can become an over reaching policy.
I don't want to see any government bill get rid of our freedom, and democracy.