[blindchristian] FW: BreakPoint Daily: Religious Freedom, the New Un-American Activity?
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Religious Freedom, the New Un-American Activity?
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Announcing Earth
By Eric Metaxas
So, you want religious exemptions from supporting same-sex marriage and
abortion? Well, two foundations are spending millions to put an end to your
un-American activity.
In a recent speech, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia said that
“compared to almost anywhere else in the world, our religious freedom situation
is good.” However, he said, the situation is “changing,” and, what’s more, the
pace of that change will “quicken.”
The reason it will quicken is that, as Archbishop Chaput said, people “use
words like justice, rights, freedom and dignity without any commonly shared
meaning to their content.” As a result, “our most important debates boil out to
who can deploy the best words in the best way to get power.”
That pursuit of power and its implications for religious liberty led BreakPoint
favorite Rod Dreher to link Chaput’s warning with what he called a “deeply
troubling report” from the Catholic News Service.
According to the story, two private foundations—The Ford Foundation and the
ARCUS Foundation—have “poured more than three million dollars into abortion
rights, LGBT activist, and legal groups to push the message that exemptions
based on religious beliefs are ‘un-American’ and an abuse of liberty.”
Between them, the two foundations have spent $3 million in furtherance of what
John Lomperis of the Institute for Religion and Democracy called a
“totalitarian vision” of religious freedom.
For instance, ARCUS gave the ACLU two grants totaling $700,000 in 2014. There’s
nothing wrong with that, per se. The problem lies in the purpose of these
grants. The first, as I mentioned, was to develop “communications strategies to
convince conservative Americans that religious exemptions are ‘un-American.’”
The second, much larger grant was to “support the ACLU's Campaign to End the
Use of Religion to Discriminate.” The goal of this campaign is, in ARCUS’ own
words, to combat “the growing trend of institutions and individuals claiming
exemptions from anti-discrimination laws because of religious objections.”
ARCUS and the Ford Foundation came together to sponsor the “Public
Rights/Private Conscience Project” at the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law
at Columbia Law School, one of the nation’s top five law schools.
The goal of the project is to “mobilize scholars, attorneys and advocates in
order to develop and distribute new methods of framing perceived conflicts
between sexual rights and religious liberty.”
So, instead of mobilizing “scholars, attorneys, and advocates” to protect
people’s rights, the goal is to take them away. And they’ve been calling us
intolerant fanatics!
Speaking of intolerance, Rod Dreher is completely right when he asks his
readers to “Remember a few years back when people asked the naive question,
‘What does my gay neighbors’ marriage have to do with my marriage?’” What made
the question naïve was that, even then, forward-thinking people saw things like
these current efforts on the horizon.
As Rod put it, “powerful elites not happy with having won on nearly every
front, [are now] spending lots of money to crush religious dissenters.”
Amazingly enough, today’s religious freedom may be tomorrow’s “un-American
activity.”
And that’s the answer we give BreakPoint listeners who ask about why we devote
so much time to the issues of same-sex marriage and religious freedom.
So what can we do? Well, first and foremost: We pray and trust God.
Second, we counter the efforts to crush religious freedom by speaking out and
by supporting organizations on the front lines that are defending our freedoms.
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Third, we pray some more. Really.
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Next Steps:
Eric has encouraged us not only to pray, but to participate in the defense of
the rights guaranteed to us in our Constitution and our laws. This is a great
opportunity to support organizations that protect and champion our rights and
freedoms. Check out the resources and the organizational websites listed below.
Resources:
Of Human Dignity: The Declaration on Religious Liberty at 50
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Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. | St. Charles Borromeo Seminary | March 17, 2015
Are wealthy US foundations paying to suppress religious freedom?
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Rod Dreher | The American Conservative | March 24, 2015
Organizations Defending Religious Liberty:
Alliance Defending Freedom
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The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
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