‘It is not the prerogative of the president to declare what laws will be enforced.’
President Obama is “arrogant” and his agenda regarding religious liberty and freedom of speech constitutes “cultural imperialism,” charges a senior fellow at a think tank for Concerned Women for America, the largest public policy women’s organization in the nation.
“In our system of government, it is not the prerogative of the president to declare what the law is or which laws will be enforced,” said Janice Shaw Crouse, senior fellow at the Beverly LaHaye Institute of the Concerned Women for America.
She is a recognized authority on domestic issues, the United Nations and cultural and women’s concerns and served as a U.S. delegate to the United Nationals Children’s Summit in 2002. She later was given a presidential appointment to the 2003 United Nations Commission on the Status of Woman, and she was a speech writer during the first Bush administration.
“I am not the only cultural commentator to have observed that this president has overstepped his authority in this area. In addition, it is not the president’s prerogative to say that his interpretation of human rights trumps religious liberty or freedom of speech. Further, it is not his prerogative to say that his interpretation of human rights trumps the centuries old cultural and religious traditions of other nations.”
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