Influential Mosque Opponent Promotes Religious Freedom Abroad For U.S. Government

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Source: Talking Points Memo

Influential Mosque Opponent Promotes Religious Freedom Abroad For U.S. Government
Brian Beutler | August 18, 2010, 5:07PM

As president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, Dr. Richard Land is an influential opponent of the Cordoba House project in New York. But when he's not speaking on behalf of one of the most powerful religious bodies in the country, Land has a second -- some would say ironic -- ecumenical role: member of the federally created United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.

In his role as a commissioner, Land's job is to press for a U.S. foreign policy that advances religious freedoms around the world. Reached by phone today, Land maintained that there is no contradiction between his service on the Commission and his efforts to see the Cordoba House Islamic cultural center project moved farther north in Manhattan.

"Our role is to make recommendations both to the executive branch and to the legislative branch on ways in which our government policies can be used to promote religious freedom overseas," Land said. "I see absolutely no tension whatsoever. We are forbidden by statute from addressing any domestic religious freedom issue."

Furthermore, Land says, religious people in many foreign countries -- the countries the commission is most concerned with -- suffer far greater opposition than do the sponsors and supporters of the Cordoba House project. "They would envy and relish the opportunity to have the peaceful debate over the mosque in the near vicinity of Ground Zero," he says.

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[MadMaddie]

1. Follow the $$$$$$$$$$$$

Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, Dr. Richard Land

Anything Southern Baptist you can guarantee they are as crooked as a 3 dollar bill.

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2. ...

:mad: fire him.

[EXneoCON]

3. Jumbo Shrimp...

[Denninmi]

4. Of course he's promoting religious freedom.

As long as the religion being allowed is fundamentalist Christianity. Those people are exactly the same as the Taliban, just thumping a Bible instead of a Koran. They would impose a fundamentalist theocracy on the U.S. in a minute if they thought they could get away with it. Good bye women's rights, good bye abortion under ANY circumstances, better to let the woman die, at least she won't burn in Hell this way, good bye tolerance for any other religion. Hello religious litmus test for access to any societal benefits, from jobs to government office.

[cosmicone]

5. It is not a mosque ... it is a cultural center aaarrrgghhhhhh n/t

[Rhiannon12866]

6. You'll appreciate this... :)

http://www.markfiore.com/political-cartoons/watch-ground-zero-mosque-islam-ramadan-cordoba-house-animated-video-mark-fiore-animation