BILL BARR FLAMES 'UNREMITTING ASSAULT ON RELIGION, TRADITIONAL VALUES

BILL BARR FLAMES 'UNREMITTING ASSAULT' ON RELIGION, TRADITIONAL VALUES

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    "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 farmers' belief that religion was indispensable to sustaining our fee system of government."

 

    "The attorney general said numerous measures of social decline are rising as religion recedes from public life, citing higher incidence of drug addiction, mental illness, and suicide. These 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 government 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 school curriculum broaching LGBT issues. School are 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 forfeits 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' 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."....

AG WILLIAM BARR SPEAKS AT ND, SAYS SECULAR CULTURE IS 'ATTACKING RELIGION'

By Monica Murphy, posted Fri. Oct. 11, 2019 Notre Dame, Ind. (WNDU)

 

    Law students, the De Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture Group and invited guests listened to Barr speak. For the last five decades, Barr said religion has been under attack, adding the secular culture is growing. "Modern secularists dismiss this idea of morality as otherworldly superstition imposed by a killjoy clergy; but in fact, Judeo-christian moral standards are the ultimate utilitarian for human conduct," Barr said.

 

    He even claimed secular values are being forced on people, especially students. "For example, New Jersey recently passed a law requiring schools to adopt a LGBT curriculum that many feel is inconsistent with traditional Christian teaching," Barr said. Barr, a devout, said the "traditional order is shaken and encouraged the crowd to keep faith and values alive.

    "In other words, religion helps frame a moral; culture within society that instills and reinforces moral discipline," he said. Meanwhile, outside the courtroom, around 40 people took to the streets to protest Barr's visit to Notre Dame.... Back in the courtroom, Barr made a promise in his closing remarks:

    "I can assure you that as long as I am attorney general, that the Department of Justice will be the forefront of this effort, ready to fight for the most cherished of all American liberties: the freedom to live according to our faith," he said. For the full lecture, to the WNDU Facebook page.  

 

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