A diverse group of religious leaders, including the chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' ad hoc committee on religious liberty and the presiding bishop of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, called on President Barack Obama and Congress to reject the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights' recent report on religious freedom law.
"We wish to express our deep concern that the commission has issued a report, "Peaceful Coexistence: Reconciling Non-Discrimination Principles with Civil Liberties," that stigmatizes tens of millions of religious Americans, their communities and their faith-based institutions, and threatens the religious freedom of all our citizens," reads the group's letter, sent Wednesday to President Obama, Senate President Pro Tempore Orrin Hatch and House Speaker Paul Ryan.
The commission's report released last month offered a grim view of efforts to balance religious freedom protections with anti-discrimination measures.
"The phrases 'religious liberty' and 'religious freedom' will stand for nothing except hypocrisy so long as they remain code words for discrimination, intolerance, racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, Christian supremacy or any form of intolerance," wrote commission Chairman Martin R. Castro in a statement attached to the report.
“When we are confronted with evidence that challenges our deeply held beliefs we are more likely to reframe the evidence than we are to alter our beliefs. We simply invent new reasons, new justifications, new explanations. Sometimes we ignore the evidence altogether.” (Mathew Syed 'Black Box Thinking')
I guess truth hurts. Eventually you have to take the bag of candy away from the child, even if they scream about it, because you know that left to their own devices, they will just make themselves sick.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
How DARE you judge us for Hating the People we choose to Hate. That is down right anti-religious of you.
We need our freedom to Hate or how will people know that someone is bad for just existing.
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