When a Notre Dame student organization accepted an invitation to participate in a new documentary film about the annual March for Life, producer Jack Cashill was pleased. “Notre Dame is the iconic Catholic university,” said Cashill.

Notre Dame’s attorney sent us a ‘memorandum of understanding’ that included any number of terms that were simply impossible to meet
the University’s character as a Catholic institution of higher learning.
The Obama invite does just the opposite
something as unblushingly Christian as the March For Life.
Despite the students’ eagerness to participate, the Obama invite would have compromised our message
The Benedictine students were super
More than 10 percent of the Benedictine student body went to Washington. They are not embarrassed to be Catholic and Pro-life.
The plan was to put a cameraman with the students on a day-long bus journey to the nation’s capital and capture their participation at the March for Life as a segment of the documentary, Thine Eyes: A Witness to the March for Life.

But about five days before shooting was to begin, the administration threw up some insurmountable roadblocks.

“Notre Dame’s attorney sent us a ‘memorandum of understanding’ that included any number of terms that were simply impossible to meet,” said Cashill.

Even though the camera on the Notre Dame bus was just one of six dedicated to the shoot, Notre Dame insisted on the right to review in advance both the documentary itself and all of its marketing materials lest either “imply endorsement” by the university.

Cashill said that the irony of the memo is that its stated purpose was to protect “the University’s character as a Catholic institution of higher learning.”

“The Obama invite does just the opposite,” added Cashill, who believes that the administration had no interest in seeing Notre Dame publicly associated with “something as unblushingly Christian as the March For Life.”

With President Obama’s scheduled May 17 commencement address at the University of Notre Dame coinciding with the release of Thine Eyes, A Witness To The March For Life, Cashill considers it providential that Notre Dame backed out of the project.

“Despite the students’ eagerness to participate, the Obama invite would have compromised our message,” Cashill said.

Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, immediately accepted a last minute invitation to join the project. The president of Benedictine, Steve Minnis, attended the March himself.

“The Benedictine students were super,” said Cashill. “More than 10 percent of the Benedictine student body went to Washington. They are not embarrassed to be Catholic and Pro-life.”

About Thine Eyes — Thine Eyes is a documentary film project focused on the world’s largest and most consistent Pro-life event, the annual March for Life in Washington DC.

Here is an article from alliednews. It appears that many conservative Christians are angry towards the president for not celebrating the National Day of Prayer in the manner in which it was done in the last 8 years. Read the article and let BIBLE PR know what you think. Your opinion is very important.

Thursday was the National Day of Prayer and major events were planned at the U.S. Capitol.

But unlike the last eight years of the Bush administration, the White House did not hold a big event.

Hundreds went to the Capitol this week to read the Bible cover to cover in honor of National Day of Prayer. The event was enacted by Congress a national observance in 1952 under Harry Truman.

Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Va. lead events this week on Capitol Hill.

“How would this nation be different? How would we have weathered those storms if we hadn’t prayed, if we hadn’t been a nation of people who had that kind of faith,” he asked. “I would suggest that it would be markedly different and not in a positive way.”

The event has typically had a very Judeo-Christian feel. Many conservatives in Congress believe it should be that way because of the religious heritage of the nation.

But President Obama caused a little controversy recently with his remarks in Turkey.

“We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation; we consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values,” he said.

Those comments did not sit well with Forbes in a recent newspaper editorial.

“We just respectfully disagree with the president and we invite him and others who think that they’ve strayed from those principles to come back and look at them again and restudy the birth of this nation and where we are today, the principles that made us great and keep us great as we go through these difficult times that we’re facing as a nation,” he said.

Christian groups on Youtube also took the president to task for his comments.

For the last eight years during the Bush administration, the National Day of Prayer received the royal treatment. There was a big event at the White House with conservative Christian leaders.

Not this time.

The White House stated that those events when Bush was in office were an exception and that Obama will do what presidents in the past have typically done, and sign a proclamation.

Meanwhile, Capitol Hill related events went on, including a formal resolution introduced in Congress this week reaffirming America’s important religious history.