Faith Leaders Call on Government Officials
to Renounce Biased Claims in Religious Liberty Report
by Gretchen R. Crowe
Our Sunday Visitor Weekly
In a sign of solidarity, 17 interfaith leaders in a letter called on President Barack Obama, Senate President pro tempore Sen. Orrin Hatch, and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan to “renounce publicly the claim that ‘religious freedom’ and ‘religious liberty’ are ‘code words’ or a ‘pretext’ for various forms of discrimination.”
The assertions had been put forth in a report issued last month by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, which also claimed that “religion is being used as both a weapon and a shield by those seeking to deny others equality.”
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