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According to the Cardinal leading the Vatican’s highest court, “the policies of the president of the United States have become progressively more hostile toward Christian civilization.  He appears to be a totally secularized man who aggressively promotes anti-life and anti-family policies… Obama wants to restrict religious freedom and force the individuals, outside his or her place of worship ‘to act against his rightly-formed conscience, even in the most serious of moral questions’… ‘Such policies would have been unimaginable in the United States even 40 years ago’” (CNS News, March 21, 2014).

Many have heard the phrase “United we stand, divided we fall.” Perhaps it is best known from a speech given by Abraham Lincoln on June 16, 1858, at the Illinois Republican State Convention. But it is clearly an ancient Biblical precept well worth remembering.