Posted on 01/29/2020 6:53:50 PM PST by marshmallow
Attorney General William Barr warned New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan of “an organized, militant secular effort” to suppress religion in “the marketplace of ideas” in an interview Wednesday.
“The problem today is not that religious people are trying to impose their views on non-religious people,” Barr told Dolan on his SiriusXM radio show Conversation with Cardinal Dolan. “It’s the opposite — it’s that militant secularists are trying to impose their values on religious people, and they’re not accommodating the freedom of religion of people of faith.”
Citing Democrats’ efforts to coerce religious employers to violate their conscience rights as well as their ongoing effort to expand abortion access, Barr has used his platform as attorney general to speak out about what he sees as encroachments on religious liberty. He drew a torrent of criticism in October over a speech at Notre Dame Law School in which he said religiously convicted Americans face “social, educational, and professional ostracism.”
The attorney general explained Wednesday that the Founders believed in “the centrality of religion to the health of American democracy,” and that a loss of popular religiosity was a danger to the republic.
“We believe in the separation of church and state,” Barr stated. “But what permits a limited government and minimal command and control of the population — and allows people to have freedom of choice in their lives — and trust in the people is the fact that they are a people that are capable of disciplining themselves according to moral values.”
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Barr found another thing to be very concerned about yet do nothing about, eh?
Astirisk for later.
Nothing, I guess. It's what he's best at.
I like to coach to players strengths. Barr’s is bloviating about how outraged he is and then never saying another word or doing anything. So I’d keep him around if we ever need to run plays that need that.
Barr should not be giving interviews on talk shows. It is beneath the dignity of his office.
**an organized, militant secular effort” to suppress religion in “the marketplace of ideas”**
It’s coming towards us, friends. Anchor your faith firmly.
BUMP!
When President Trump is reelected, he needs to nominate a real AG, not the bagpipe-blowhard we have now.
At the time of our Constitutions writing, most of today’s Democrats would be found pilloried.
The more faithful the AG, the more vociferous the cries of partisanship.
LOL. Dolan is a soldier in the front lines of that “militant secular effort” to destroy religious freedom. He is not a Christian in any sense of the word.
“I like to coach to players strengths. Barr’s is bloviating about how outraged he is”
When and in what words has he expressed personal outrage? There are no such words in the article, nor in the transcript of the mentioned Notre Dame speech (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3786110/posts).
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