Free Republic

New Congress should guarantee faith leaders freedom of speech In 2007 a new Congress has an opportunity to erase a law that has paralyzed faith leaders for over 50 years. In 1954 while the U.S. Supreme Court was using the historic "Brown v Board of Education" guaranteeing Blacks their basic U.S. Constitutional rights, then-Congressman Lyndon Baines Johnson, the future President of the United States, was initiating a law that would strip hundreds of thousands of religious leaders and their brothers and sisters in faith of the U.S. Constitutional Right to Freedom of Speech and thereby sentence them to self-imposed silence...