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A grave example of religious oppression is embedded in the history of American slavery.
Some slaveowners refused to allow Black slaves to attend church, denied them literacy to keep them from the Bible’s liberation narratives and even forbade them to pray.
That history gives profound moral authority to Black churches and leaders who are banding together to support religious freedom. At Notre Dame last week, one such leader stood and offered the Fairness for All Act as a solution to polarization. The act began as the Utah Compromise, which was created, backed and announced in part by the leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to provide legal protections for LGBTQ people and religious freedom.
SOUTH BEND, Indiana Society benefits from the accountability believers have to God and the good works they perform for others, so religions should work together to reduce polarization, faith leaders and scholars said Monday during the inaugural Notre Dame Law School Religious Liberty Summit in South Bend, Indiana.
The keynote address was delivered by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Catholic archbishop of New York, and was followed by a panel that included his good friend, Elder Quentin L. Cook of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. My plea today is that all religions work together to defend faith and religious freedom in a manner that protects people of diverse faith as well as those of no faith, Elder Cook said. Catholics, Evangelicals, Jews, Muslims, Latter-day Saints and other faiths must be part of a coalition of faiths that succor, act as a sanctuary and promulgate religious freedom across the world. We must not only protect o