Saturday, February 14, 2015

Maggie Gallager and Religous Liberty

At National Review Online, , has an article discussing what social conservatives should ask of a GOP nominee. Citing an article by Russell Moore at the Wall Street Journal, she quotes him:
In recent years candidates have assumed that they can win over evangelicals by learning Christian slogans, by masking political rallies as prayer meetings, and by basically producing a long-form new birth certificate to prove they’ve been born again. This sort of identity politics is a luxury of a past era when evangelicals were part of a silent majority in the U.S., with our First Amendment freedoms assumed and guaranteed.  That is not the present situation.
She goes to say:
Indeed it is not. Let me speak for traditionalists of all religions for a moment.
A few months before the Supreme Court is likely to rule on gay marriage, the incidents causing concern about what gay marriage will mean for dissenters (especially traditional Christians, Orthodox Jews, and Muslims) multiply: 

She then details a large number of instances where conservatives (many of whom are Christians) are excluded, publicly shamed and humiliated and sometimes heavily fined because of their religiously based views of Marriage, as opposed to the view proposed and held by advocates of Gay Marriage.

Read the whole article.


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