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freshwest

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1. This man gets the big picture:

Reply to Htom Sirveaux (Original post)

Wed Jul 9, 2014, 03:05 AM

Jul 2014

Last week the Rev. Welton Gaddy, president of the Interfaith Alliance and one of the signers of today’s letter, said, “The tenet that religion should never be legitimated as a license to discriminate remains our core belief; that federal money must never be used to fund such discrimination must remain the bedrock of religious freedom in America.”

If government favors a religion, it ends religious freedom. EOM.

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100 Religious Leaders to Obama: No Religious Exemption in ENDA Executive Order [View all] Htom Sirveaux Jul 2014 OP

This man gets the big picture: freshwest Jul 2014 #1

Too bad they aren't from the religions that matter. LuvNewcastle Jul 2014 #2

That's great -- I think he needs the support. There ARE liberal religious denominations out there... Hekate Jul 2014 #3