Posted on 10/24/2019 7:08:18 PM PDT by bitt
Attorney General William Barr’s recent speech on religious liberty delivered at Notre Dame University has stirred controversy in some circles. But upon a full reading –something I would heartily recommend to all – it is either ironic or bewildering that his ideas have done this.
Those who find fault with Barr’s remarks demonstrate a profound deficit in their knowledge of America’s history and its core constitutional commitments. And I don’t mean that the critics fail to understand the late 18th century and the works of men like James Madison, Thomas Jefferson or Patrick Henry. They don’t even know the actions or views of Bill Clinton.
As a member of the executive committee for the Coalition for the Free Exercise of Religion, I was present on the South Lawn of the White House when President Clinton signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act into law on Nov. 16, 1993. The president noted, in the first paragraph of his remarks, that this coalition played “the central role” in “drafting this legislation and working so hard for its passage.”
RFRA was made necessary by a 1990 Supreme Court decision, which devalued the strength of the Free Exercise Clause in a case involving Native Americans and the sacramental use of peyote. But those of us who worked so hard to pass RFRA understood that the decision undermined every faith and broadly bolstered the power of government to interfere with the sincere exercise of religious belief.
RFRA was supported by a coalition so varied that it stunned Congress into near unanimity. Nearly every faith group was on board, as were the American Civil Liberties Union and conservative Christians like me. We all embraced one view. The free exercise of religion was for every person of every faith.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
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Things are looking up.
Will good men do the right thing?
I pray that they will.
There is no “right side of history”
There is no “arc of the moral universe”
There are only self-reliant individuals, and their endless struggle against collectivism and tyranny.
I have hopes but I have had them before. Ever since Sessions I have had little faith in the DOJ. I am cautiously optimistic that Barr is about to restore some of that lost faith and when I see some of the obviously guilty characters are perp walked I will then and only then find it appropriate to celebrate.
If the Republic is to be saved...
Bill Barr will be up there with Lincoln!
to quote Superman...Truth....Justice...and the American Way!
And I don’t mean that the critics fail to understand
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I think they understand, they just reject it.
All of it, our history, our traditions, our values, our Constitution.
They reject it all.
If TRUTH is exposed and the corruption vanquished, Donald Trump will have been the Greatest President in American history.
Amen to that.
Say it again!
“If TRUTH is exposed and the corruption vanquished, Donald Trump will have been the Greatest President in American history.”
Watched the whole speech when it came out. It is the best legal, philosophical, and accurate commentary on the state of religious liberty and freedom and the affects of secular changes devoting of society and the affects on government and liberty ever given.
There are 2 major impediments that need to be addressed (IMO):
1. Christopher Wray, Director of the FBI
2. Jessie K. Liu, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia
He already is
I’m not looking for much from Barr. Something is wrong, I hope I am wrong.
Barr doesn’t do much other than investigate.
Seperation of church and state myth. Snopes should come clean.. o wait. One nation, under God, indivisible would surely keep the democrats and other abusers of power out of control.
So they feed myths to the masses.
The churches were historically vital centers of everyday life, including politics.
There is no “right side of history”
There is no “arc of the moral universe”
There are only self-reliant individuals, and their endless struggle against collectivism and tyranny.
—Which puts them on the right side of history....
Sorry - coffee is kicking in....
Okay. Only this time I'm going to shout!
Or as LibertyWoman says:
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