More than a dozen Democratic black pastors and church leaders have launched a petition letter demanding that Amy Coney Barrett – President Donald Trump’s pick to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg – not be attacked for her faith.
The petition launched by the Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies, titled “Call to Action! A Black Defense of Freedom of Conscience and Amy Coney Barrett,” insists that the conservative judge not be targeted for her religious convictions as a devout Catholic.
“Today, we stand with – and speak in defense of – Judge Amy Coney Barrett,” Rev. Eugene F. Rivers, III, the founder and director of the Seymour Institute, declares on the petition. “As black Christians, we will not stand by in silence as our sister in the faith is persecuted for the ‘political crime’ of her beliefs.”
No more attacks on Christian beliefs
The letter calls out the assault on Barrett – based on her sincerely held religious convictions – as unacceptable........To Read More.....
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