Activist Can't Explain Why Christians, But Not Others, Deserve 'Religious Liberty'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/11/religious-liberty_n_5485293.html

Michael McAuliff
Posted: 06/11/2014 4:40 pm EDT Updated: 06/11/2014 5:59 pm EDT

WASHINGTON -- One of the difficulties that religious advocates have is that many seem to think the ideas and beliefs that they hold most dear are somehow different or exceptional compared with the base tenets of others.

Such was the case in a remarkable hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on "The State Of Religious Liberty In The United States" Tuesday.

First, the advocates called before the panel were loath to admit that religion had been used in the past to justify slavery, with people often citing the Bible.

"Actually, I've heard that argument made a lot, and it's something I'm trying to look into on my own," said Kim Colby, a lawyer with the Christian Legal Society. She credited Quakers and then evangelical Christians with leading the abolition movement.

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