Plano, TX- A first of its kind document, outlining hundreds of massive religious freedoms violations, was filed today in response to questions from the United States Senate. The document outlines hundreds of cases, revealing widespread religious hostility across the country.
“It is amazing that a document like this has never been assembled before. When you look at what is actually happening around the nation, it’s truly scary,” said Kelly Shackelford, Chief Counsel for Liberty Legal Institute.
The document was prepared after Senator John Cornyn, Chairman of the U.S Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Senator Kennedy, sent a letter to the chief counsel for Liberty Legal Institute. Senator Cornyn sought information on the magnitude of religious freedoms violations and the current law which protects against hostility to religious expression.
The letter came in response to chief counsel Shackelford’s testimony before the U.S Senate Subcommittee, where he addressed the severity and broad range of religious hostility throughout the nation.
"Today’s report by Kelly Shackelford and the Liberty Legal Institute is so important, and I am so grateful that the Institute has completed its work and submitted it to my subcommittee. The problem of hostility to religious expression is national, it is pervasive, and it is well organized. The report not only contains page after page and example after example of hostility to religious expression, it also charts how the campaign to purge the public square of all expressions of faith is carefully orchestrated and organized by some of the nation's leading liberal special interest groups," said Senator John Cornyn.
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