Kudos to Kathleen Parker for this well reported column on President Obamas speech at the National Prayer Breakfast! President Obama lamented eroding protections of religious liberty around the world, Parker writes. Just not, apparently, in America... Parker continues: It is true that our religious-liberty issues are tamer than those mentioned by Obama. We don’t slaughter people for their religious beliefs. We don’t use blasphemy laws to repress people. But we are in the midst of a muddle about where religion and state draw their “red lines,” and it isn’t going so well for the religious-liberty lobby. As it turns out, many in the audience were reaching for their own jaws when Obama got to the liberty section of his speech, according to several people who attended the breakfast. Michael Cromartie, vice president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, summed up the general reaction of many with whom he spoke: “Stunned.” “Several people said afterward how encouraged they would have been by President Obama’s remarks if only his acts reflected what he said,” Cromartie told me.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:49:44 +0000
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