Posted on 01/27/2018 6:38:32 PM PST by marshmallow
Sam Brownback is the first Catholic to head up Office of International Religious Freedom
WASHINGTON (ChurchMilitant.com) - Senate confirms Trump appointee and Catholic Kansas governor, Sam Brownback, as the ambassador for international religious freedom.
On Wednesday, Vice-President Mike Pence broke a 49–49 vote tie in the Senate, making Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback — a pro-life Catholic convert — the fifth U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom. It's Pence's seventh tie-breaker since taking office just over a year ago.
Brownback will head up the Office of International Religious Freedom, a branch of the U.S. State Department, which helps the administration to form policies by monitoring religious persecution and discrimination around the world.
The office's job is to:
* Promote freedom of religion and conscience throughout the world as a fundamental human right and as a source of stability for all countries
* Assist emerging democracies in implementing freedom of religion and conscience
* Assist religious and human rights non-government organizations in promoting religious freedom
* Identify and denounce regimes that are severe persecutors on the basis of religious belief
Brownback is the first Catholic to hold the position. Previous ambassadors, Robert Seiple, John Hanford and Suzan Johnson Cook, are Protestant, while David Saperstein, the most recent ambassador, is Jewish.
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Why would Pence have to break a tie in a supposedly conservative Senate?
Never mind. I know the answer already.
Damned rinos.
Toleration in general signifies patient forbearance in the presence of an evil which one is unable or unwilling to prevent. By religious toleration is understood the magnanimous indulgence which one shows towards a religion other than his own, accompanied by the moral determination to leave it and its adherents unmolested in private and public, although internally one views it with complete disapproval as a "false faith". Catholic Encyclopedia
What is this supposedly conservative Senate of which you speak? The division is 51-49. The question is why the Democrats opposed the nomination.
Brownback is a convert to Catholicism. Good man.
51-49
The upside is that when Trump has to drop a MOAB on Congress in full session, this vote will be not forgotten.
Brownback will do a superb job!
Great decision! Winning...more please!
JoMa
“The question is why the Democrats opposed the nomination.”
Because he is the governor of Kansas and he has an “R” near his name. It shouldn’t make any difference rationally what a person who is supposed to assist in religious growth for new countries is listed as. The job description has nothing to do with politics. But the small, and sometimes, irrational thinking of liberals is they don’t care what he can do religiously, he just has an “R.”
I’m willing to bet if the senate had voted on an atheist, and he had a “D” in front of his name, you’d have seen a straight party vote for them. Let’s don’t put someone in that might be qualified. We have to vote for a dem only. It’s the way we work. Stupidly, maybe. But it’s tradition.
rwood
International Office of Religious Freedom? Need heard of such an office.
That being said - a “Catholic” to head up an office or commission on religious freedom is a bit ironic, considering centuries of Church history where the RC Church expended considerable resources (and lives) extinguishing religious freedom...
** RC Church expended considerable resources (and lives) extinguishing religious freedom...**
Source of this statement?
Or is it just your opinion?
Yeah.
And considering all the death threats Catholics faced form the KKK, and the discrimination faced by (legal) Catholic immigrants. And all the pearl-clutching about JFK as president.
Prepare to be roasted.
I really don’t think you want to go there. 1,000 years of European history is not on your side.
That’s because the Church teaching after Vatican II contradicts the Church teaching before Vatican II. It’s just that Catholics today have no idea that “religious liberty” was once condemned by the Catholic Church.
http://sspx.org/en/religious-liberty-contradicts-tradition
To Catholicism or the Vatican II faith?
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs - the classic historical work is a great starting place:
http://www.ccel.org/f/foxe/martyrs/home.html
No, the question is what RINO(s) voted against Brownback. Had the Senate voted entirely along party lines, Pence would not have been needed to cast a tie-breaking vote.
For the record, I'm NO FAN of Brownback overall (and I found it bizarre how FReepers heaped praise on squishy Brownback while demanding the MORE CONSERVATIVE Pat Roberts be purged from the Senate).
That being said, a vote to appoint Brownback to a position promoting religious freedom should be an EASY "yes" vote. I don't know any Republican who questions his commitment on that issue.
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