A growing bipartisan group of lawmakers is fighting the resolution. They include Democrat Tulsi Gabbard, a Samoan American combat veteran from Hawaii who, as the first Hindu elected to Congress, understands why the resolution is so unfair to Hindus. Democrat Eni Faleomavaega of American Samoa has been a staunch opponent as well. Republican foreign policy expert Ed Royce of California, not surprisingly, has the good sense to oppose the resolution as well. Republicans Steve Chabot of Ohio and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania withdrew their support, and Democrats Mike Honda, Brad Sherman and Eric Swalwell of California are also in opposition. The resolution’s co-sponsors include many legislators whom I greatly respect, and whom I routinely cheer on in almost every other circumstance. Perhaps if they were aware of the crucial facts that the drafters inexcusably omitted from the resolution, they would conclude that they had been snookered into lending their good names to an intellectually indefensible document. The fight for international religious freedom is one of the great causes of our time. It will not be served by a wrongheaded, morally muddled attack on the world’s largest democracy.
Posted on: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 02:44:13 +0000
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