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Ben Sasse: Don't Euthanize Religious Liberty

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Published on Sep 15, 2016

The Commission on Civil Rights has a profound history in our nation. Founded in 1957, it initially had the grand cause of ending the horror and the tragedy of Jim Crow laws in our nation. Sadly, however, the Commission’s focus has now strayed, and its recent report poses profound threats to the historic American understanding of our First Amendment.

The majority reveals a disturbingly low view of our first freedoms—in their own words: “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.”

But are the phrases “religious liberty” and “religious freedom” simply hypocritical code words and shields for phobias, intolerances, or power struggles?

They are not.

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