Religious Freedom on the March- Alberto Gonzales

[Olney Blue]

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070220/NEWS03/70220074/1001/NEWS


Tuesday, 02/20/07
New U.S. religious liberties project launched, U.S. Attorney General announces to Southern Baptists

By ANITA WADHWANI
Staff Writer

The U.S. will establish a new Religious Freedom Task Force and step up enforcement efforts as part of an expanded push to protect against religious discrimination, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez announced today in Nashville at a gathering of Southern Baptist leaders.

The Department of Justice’s “First Freedom Project” will review religious discrimination complaints, hold seminars to educate religious leaders about how to file complaints and launch a Web site with information on religious liberty laws, Gonzalez announced.

“One of our most cherished freedoms…is our religious liberties,” Gonzalez told the gathering of about 100 Southern Baptists at the denomination’s national headquarters in downtown Nashville. “Nothing defines us more as Americans.”
But, he said, religious discrimination is “an area of law that has not always been given sufficient attention by our government.”

Gonzales's announcement was met with skepticism by local civil libertarians.
If the First Freedom Project was meant to protect the religious freedoms of all Americans, why was it was announced only to a room full of Southern Baptists, asked Hedy Weinberg, executive director of the Tennessee branch of the American Civil Liberties Union.


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Separation of church and state be damned.......

[Demeter]

1. This Is a Joke, Right? Satire?

I wonder if I could return to the land of my great-grandparents.....

[Olney Blue]

2. Afraid not, Demeter. Here is a link to the speech.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,63527.shtml

[msongs]

3. onward christian soldiers - death to nonbelievers and queers and illegals

and catholics and mormons and all those other non-baptist sects

Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war,
with the cross of Jesus going on before.
Christ, the royal Master, leads against the foe;
forward into battle see his banners go!

Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war,
with the cross of Jesus going on before.

Kinda reminds of the good old days back in the 1930's in a certain european nation that speaks...german.

Msongs
www.msongs.com

[Olney Blue]

4. And why is the government paying for SEMINARS to teach religious

leaders how to file a claim? :grr:

[razors edge]

5. Pandering, or pleading

for a chance to show some support.

They know the last 20 percent of the brainwashed are coming to.

The BS they will portray as necessary to society will never be upheld by law in the long term.

It costs them nothing and drags the delusional along a little while longer.

[northofdenali]

6. ...

THIS IS SUCH BULLSHIT

[Olney Blue]

8. Great graphic.

[niyad]

7. and yet, a wiccan chaplain is denied continued status--I guess, in this country, ONLY xians are

entitled to "religious freedom"

and I could SWEAR that the founders meant not only freedom OF religion, but also freedom FROM religion.

"lord, protect me from your followers"