Russell Moore
By Elizabeth Bristow
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 1, 2014—Russell D. Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, filed a letter June 30 with a group of diverse faith leaders urging the U.S. Congress to protect, support and maintain existing provisions and protections of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
RFRA was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1993 in order to prevent the government from passing laws that would burden a person’s free exercise of religion.
In their letter to Congress, leaders wrote: “In the United States, freedom of religion has always included—and should always include— the right to live out one’s religion and act according to one’s conscience outside the walls of one’s house of worship.”
Read more at http://erlc.com/article/russell-moore-calls-for-protection-of-the-religious-freedom-restoration-act
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I am a pacifist. I object to my tax money being used to fund wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I want a refund. Like that is going to happen. Hypocrites on the court abound.