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Obama sidelining religious freedom?

By Alliance Alert

Washington Post, Georgetown / On Faith: "Almost 14 months into the Obama presidency, the ambassador at large for international religious freedom -- a position mandated by the International Religious Freedom Act -- has not been named, even though other positions of less weight and importance to our national interests have long been filled . . . Other new Obama foreign policy initiatives, from outreach to Muslim communities to the normalization of gay rights in international law, are getting serious policy attention and resources. But religious freedom -- which enjoys broad support among the American people and can contribute both to justice and national security -- is, in effect, being sidelined."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on March 12, 2010 (boomark / email).