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    AG Bill Barr Flames 'Unremitting' Attack on Religion, Traditional Values in Speech at Notre Dame


    AG Bill Barr Flames 'Unremitting' Attack on Religion, Traditional Values in Speech at Notre Dame
    Published on October 13, 2019
    By Kevin Daley
    Bill Barr Flames 'Unremitting' Attack on Religion, Traditional Values in Speech at Notre Dame | The Stream

    Concerted attacks on religious liberty have triggered a moral upheaval that contributes to deadly social pathologies, Attorney General William Barr said Friday at the University of Notre Dame.

    "The imperative of protecting religious freedom was not just a nod in the direction of piety," Barr said. "It reflects the framers' belief that religion was indispensable to sustaining our free system of government."

    The attorney general said numerous measures of social decline are rising as religion recedes from public life, citing higher instances of drug addiction, mental illness, and suicide. Those outcomes are not random, but the fruit of a dedicated campaign against orthodox religious belief, Barr added.

    "This is not decay," Barr said. "This is organized destruction. Secularists and their allies have marshaled all the forces of mass communication, popular culture, the entertainment industry, and academia in an unremitting assault on religion and traditional values."

    Barr said state governments and municipal agencies have been at the vanguard of that effort, noting the board of education in Orange County, California, recently decided religious dissenters may not excuse their children from portions of the school curriculum broaching LGBT issues. Schools are the usual forum for attacks on religious liberty, Barr said.

    In that connection, the attorney general noted the Department of Justice recently intervened in a dispute between a gay teacher and a Catholic high school near Notre Dame. The case arose when the Archdiocese of Indianapolis directed Cathedral High School to dismiss a teacher in a public, same-sex marriage or forfeit its Catholic affiliation. The high school did so. The teacher, Joshua Payne-Elliott, sued the school in turn.

    The Justice Department filed a statement of interest in the case Sept. 27, arguing that the lawsuit suppresses the archdiocese's First Amendment right to expressive association, and impermissibly asks the court to interfere with internal church matters.

    "The First Amendment precludes this court, a state actor, from cooperating in plaintiff's attempt to stifle the archdiocese's First Amendment right to expressive association," the filing reads. "The First Amendment also precludes the court from entangling itself in a quintessentially ecclesiastical question: whether the archdiocese properly interpreted and applied Catholic doctrine. The First Amendment commits that question exclusively to the ecclesiastical tribunals of the church."

    Anti-Barr demonstrators picketed near the Notre Dame campus during the attorney general's visit, according to the South Bend Tribune. ...













    This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity (futility) of their mind, having the understanding darkened...
    (Ephesians 4:17-18)

    Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
    (Psalm 1)

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    Good stuff. He's exactly right.

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    That will stir some devils up!

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    "This is not decay," Barr said. "This is organized destruction. Secularists and their allies have marshaled all the forces of mass communication, popular culture, the entertainment industry, and academia in an unremitting assault on religion and traditional values."

    Hit the nail right on the head with that.

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