Tony Perkins appointed to US panel on international religious freedom
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Tony Perkins, the head of the conservative Christian lobbying group Family Research Council, has been appointed to a U.S. government commission dedicated to “defending the universal right to freedom of religion or belief abroad.”
On Monday (May 14), the Congressional Record revealed that Perkins had been appointed to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom on the recommendation of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. The USCIRF is an independent, bipartisan U.S. federal government commission created in 1998 through the passage of the International Religious Freedom Act, and issues an annual report every May 1 on international religious freedom issues.
“I am grateful to Majority Leader McConnell for appointing me to this prestigious position. From my post at USCIRF, I look forward to doing all that I can to ensure that our government is the single biggest defender of religious freedom internationally,” Perkins, an evangelical Christian and frequent faith adviser to President Trump’s administration, said in a press release.
Perkins expressed particular interest in addressing religious freedom issues in nations that top the commission’s list of “Countries of Particular Concern,” saying in his statement, “It is my hope that through the work of USCIRF, the world will become one step closer to recognizing the vital role religious freedom and the defense of religious minorities play in peace, security and human flourishing.”
Perkins intends to remain president of the Family Research Council during his two-year term on the USCIRF.
FRC has been labeled as an anti-LGBT hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center,
although Perkins and the FRC dispute the label.
Perkins has been a consistent supporter of Trump, telling Politico in January that he and other evangelical Christians gave the president a “mulligan” for past behavior that may have been at odds with conservative Christian values. Perkins is also credited as being one of the driving forces behind Trump’s various efforts to ban transgender people from the U.S. military.
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“Tony Perkins, the head of the conservative Christian lobbying group Family Research Council, has been appointed to a U.S. government commission dedicated to “defending the universal right to freedom of religion or belief abroad.”
What freedom do religious people seek that they do not currently enjoy, unless this is a euphemism for worldwide Judea-Christian proselytization without limits? If their god is claimed to be both omnipotent and omniscient then why do they lack for anything that they need and feel that they deserve?
They want the legal right to discriminate against anyone that isn't white, Christian, rich, straight and republican. You know, just the way Jesus was. /s
I feel stupid for not knowing that. I forgot to read the Gospel of Pat Robertson.
The position was for improving religious liberty abroad. As to your other point about proselytizing the whole world, since you brought it up.....it will happen, period. It can’t/won’t be stopped no matter the level of persecution. The very rocks will cry out of no person is left present alive in a location.
Why can't you respect the religious beliefs of others, if you want them to equally respect your religious beliefs? Where is their religious freedom to be left alone?
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Religious nonsense.
The vast majority of Christians are not rich, not white, and not Americans, thus they aren’t Republicans either.
You are reading the religion section here. What did you expect but religious verbiage?
Just because a message is spread where everyone has an opportunity to hear it doesn’t mean that anyone should or would be compelled to accept or believe it. It would defeat the purpose of free will otherwise.
Why didn't you seed this in a private group if you don't desire critical replies? I don't have to ask permission before I reply to your religious threads and I am not required to be a echo chamber for your conservative views.
Christianity has been on the decline over the last ~20 years. Sorry.
Society would have been infinitely more advanced if the Abrahamic religions had been in decline for the past 1200 years. Religious belief is a mental health epidemic.
Who said you couldn’t reply? I didn’t. I wasn’t aware of this good news. I knew about Brownback getting the lead job in that agency established by law. I thought that Perkins was perfect for his position appointed by Trump at the recommendation of Sen. Mc Connell. Notice the picture of him speaking at the GOP convention on the day Trump made his big speech.
Teaching people logic tends to have that effect on large groups. Should teaching logic be banned or limited to people 21 and over?
You have said yourself that the left is not religious. Now you are backtracking?
American Christians are about 15% at most of the global Christian population. People who are left of center outside of Europe and North America may well be quite religious as are non caucasians in North America and Europe. So as I said, most Christians are not white, not rich, and not American, Republican or otherwise.
Thankfully we kicked Brownstain and Kobach out of Kansas.
That's great news. I hope Saudia Arabia is the first assignment for Tony, his family, and the rest of the FRC membership and their families.
Or Iran and then Pakistan.
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I'm going to have to delete this thread, and ask that you both not pursue it any further.
Sorry about the sarcasm.
Understood. Just need you to tone it down a bit.
Understood. Sorry.
Not sure what his goal is. We already have freedom of religion.
Our freedom of religion could be better. The position he was appointed to seeks to imporove religious freedom and liberty 🗽 all around the world.
What freedom do you not have that you feel that you deserve? Do you plan to give other religions the same freedom or is this freedom just for conservative Christians who believe as you do?
Freedom of religion is all you are going to get here in the USA. Are you saying you want MORE than 100% freedom of religion? Ridiculous non-sense.
I worry much more about freedom from religion.
But here in the states they shit bricks if you want to build a mosque.
I get the impression that when they see, "Freedom Of Religion", they take it to mean THEIR religion, no one else's.
That’s not what was said at his appointment to the position.
sandy-2021492 what part of what I posted didn't have to do with this seed, it was about trump and christians, it's in reply to part of the seed:
HA always flags posts as "off topic" if they don't agree with them.
Thank you sandy-2021492 for the nice chat!
I am done with this seed. All my comments will be deleted anyway so no point in posting.
What other less than honest or flouting wealth prosperity gospel preachers do to embarrass the faith has nothing to do with Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins getting the Religious Liberty Position he was appointed to which is what the article is about.
What I posted in 5.1 is IN the article. It is the very last paragraph of what you seeded
This is a 'religious section', huh?
Well, Perkins is yet another inside plant of Lucifer to sow more seeds of discord, division and avarice.
Way to go, McConnell. The Deceiver chalks up another one.
As if Lucifer or Satan wants a push for religious liberty all around the world.
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and the seeder hasn't moderated the conversation and the membership has hijacked the article to talk about this article about the Sentinelese.