Sessions Thanks Anti-LGBT Group for Its "Important Work"

[Miles Archer]

Sessions Thanks Anti-LGBT Group for Its “Important Work”



http://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2017/07/sessions-thanks-anti-lgbt-group-for-its-important-work/

On Tuesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions came under fire for giving a closed-door speech at a summit organized by a religious freedom group known for advocating anti-LGBT policies. The group, Alliance Defending Freedom, has a legal case in front of the Supreme Court right now—it’s representing a Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. It has also worked to bar transgender people from bathrooms of their choice, and it has promoted anti-sodomy laws in the United States and abroad.

"Thank you for that introduction. And thank you for the important work that you do every day to uphold and protect the right to religious liberty in this country. This is especially needed today.

While your clients vary from pastors to nuns to geologists, all of us benefit from your good work—because religious liberty and respect for religion have strengthened this country from the beginning. In fact, it was largely in order to enjoy and protect these rights that this country was settled and founded in the first place, as those in this room especially know.

Our concepts of religious freedom came to us through the development of the Western heritage of faith and reason. In America, Madison and Jefferson advanced those concepts. Their victory was to declare religious freedom to be a matter of conscience inherent in each individual, not as a matter of toleration granted from the top. I propose that in America our understanding of religious freedom can only be understood within that heritage."

[MountCleaners]

1. Oh dear, the illiteracy never ends

"The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. ... Reason and free enquiry are the only effectual agents against error." Jefferson's religious views became a major public issue during the bitter party conflict between Federalists and Republicans in the late 1790s when Jefferson was often accused of being an atheist.

https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/jeffersons-religious-beliefs

[Major Nikon]

4. You can safely assume you've created God in your own image...

when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
-- Anne Lamott

[Matthew28]

2. They aim to turn us into a religious fascist

state that hates any and all freedom. Kind of like parts of Europe in the 14th century.

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

People really need to read what he told them.

[Gothmog]

5. Sessions spoke to a hate group

[Hieronymus]

6. Sessions' sexuality is a matter of dispute.

[msongs]

7. wondering what the KKK thinks about these very same issues and groups...and politicians nt