From Clinton's "35
Religious Groups"
Baptist Joint Committee
"Protecting religious liberty by
keeping church and state separate"
"I’m convinced that good people of every spiritual
hue, precisely for their decency, cannot comprehend how profoundly
outrageous the goals, evil the methods and pervasive the influence of
religio-political extremists. [named later are Christian Coalition,
Focus on the Family and American Family Association] Many see those so
labeled as merely religious and political conservatives. How dangerous
our naivete! How frightening our ignorance! Thank God for the
Anti-Defamation League’s publication of The Religious Right: The
assault on Tolerance and Pluralism in America."
James
M. Dunn, Executive Director, BJCPA
Report
from the Capital, Sept. 20, 1994 p.3
(For more
information see "defense" section X)
What's the Book
Say About the "Religious Right"?
What is it about the "Religious Right" that the
BJCPA views as so dangerous, radical, extremist and fanatical?
According to the above mentioned book, published by the
Anti-Defamation League, under the subtitle "Religious Right and
Homosexuality," the book states: "Among the concerns generating the
greatest degree of unity and intensity on the religious right are ...
abortion, feminism, pornography, and homosexuality. Each of these is
perceived by the movement as an assault on the family and traditional,
scriptural values..." (p. 132)
(For more
information see "defense" section X)
http://www.mbla.org/bjcpa06.htm
From their website:
WASHINGTON -- The separation of church and state remains the “best
means of assuring robust religious liberty and to creating a climate
of mutual respect in a religiously diverse culture,” five U.S.
religious organizations declared in a joint publication issued October
17. A Shared Vision: Religious Liberty in the 21st Century was
published by The American Jewish Committee, the Baptist Joint
Committee on Public Affairs, The Interfaith Alliance Foundation,
the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.
and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism.
[same groups are listed on Clinton's draft]
“As organizations committed to religious liberty as well as a dynamic
role for religion in public life, we share a different vision about
the future: a vision that avoids both the theocratic tendencies on one
side and the hostility toward religion associated with the other,” the
religious groups said. "The separation of church and state requires
that government refrain from promoting or inhibiting religion.”
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