As Brian reported last week, Mat Staver is very upset that Rajiv Shah, a Hindu USAID official, was allowed to deliver the keynote address at the National Prayer Breakfast last month, saying it was proof of Obama’s “insensitivity to Christianity.”
On today’s “Faith and Freedom” radio program, Staver and co-host Matt Barber continued to complain about it, with Barber asserting that the National Prayer Breakfast organizers never should have agreed to allow an “anti-Christian speaker” to speak at the event even if it meant that Obama would not attend because, by refusing to attend, it would demonstrate to everyone that “President Obama clearly hates Christianity” and reveal that he “does not respect religious freedom”:
Staver: This is President Obama who brings into the National Prayer Breakfast someone who doesn’t mention Jesus, somebody who is not a Christian, somebody who is not a believer in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. This is Obama, who goes after Little Sisters of the Poor because he doesn’t really care for religious freedom.
Barber: Unbelievable, Matt. And shame on the organizers of the National Prayer Breakfast. They should have just let the chips fall where they may; President Obama clearly hates Christianity. He claims to be a Christian but he hates what the Bible teaches, so let him not come. That speaks volumes. The American people already know he’s anti-Christian. Just let him be anti-Christian. They don’t need an anti-Christian speaker at the National Prayer Breakfast.
Staver: Unfortunately they didn’t want that to happen … because it would be the first time in the history of the prayer breakfast that a president didn’t show up. But I would say it’s par for the course for President Obama not to show up. Let him not show up because it reveals who he really is: somebody who does not respect religious freedom.
For the record, Shah did positively mention Jesus several times during his remarks.
