WATCH: Students
Support Religious Freedom for Muslims, Not Christians
by Jerome Hudson 12 Mar 2017
Several students
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
admit that Muslims should not be
forced by law to do business with Christians.
Those same students, however, had a hard time agreeing that Christians or
conservative Americans have the right to decline work that conflicts with
their conscience or religion.
In a viral video published by Arizona-based
nonprofit Alliance Defending Freedom (ADL), students were asked if they
support Sophie Theallet’s decision not to dress Melania Trump.
Several students agreed that Theallet — one of many
fashion designers declining to dress the first family — has
every right to refuse to dress Mrs. Trump.
The students were also asked if a Muslim singer solicited
by a Christian church to sing had a right to refuse.
Again, the students agreed that the Muslim singer has a
right to not sing in a Christian church.
“Yeah, if that goes against your religious view, I feel
you have a right to turn that down,” one student said.
The students also said that a law forcing Muslims to sing
inside a Christian church should not exist.
When asked if a Christian photographer should be
allowed by law to decline to shoot a same-sex wedding, the students
appeared torn.
“For them,” the ADL notes,
“it seems that the freedom to live and work according to your beliefs really
depends on what you believe.”
Incidentally, Wisconsin resident Amy Lawson, a
blogger and owner of Amy Lynn Photography, is challenging
a state law forcing her to take photographs for a same-sex
marriage.
Watch the full ADL video below:
Muslim
Louis Farrakhan
is the acting head for the Nation of
Islam (Muslim), the organizer for the Million
Man March, and was awarded the 2007 Jeremiah
Wright Jr. Trumpeter award from the Trumpeter
Newsmagazine.
Note: Million Man March
Religious controversy
Minister Louis Farrakhan stirred up religious controversy among the Christian and the Jewish
communities. The great majority of the controversy lies with Louis Farrakhan
and the presence of many Christian speakers and organizers. He had acquired unfavorable attention from
African-American Christians and was compared to "Adolf Hitler” by the
Jewish community for anti-Jewish rhetoric and views.[28] His supporters say that
Farrakhan was “against those Jews who have sacrificed their deep
moral-religious heritage for a set of values grounded in capitalist
exploitation and oppression.”.[29] There emerged concern about
Farrakhan’s hidden political
agenda in registering black males to vote as
non-affiliate or independent parties.
Trumpeter
Newsmagazine is a publication for the Trinity
United Church of Christ (Chicago).
Trinity United Church of Christ
Trinity United
Church of Christ is a predominantly
African-American church with more than 8,500 members, located in the Washington
Heights community on the South Side of Chicago.[1] It is the largest church affiliated
with the United Church of Christ, a predominantly white Christian denomination with roots in Congregationalism, which historically
branched from early American Puritanism.
The church's early history
coincided with the American civil rights movement, subsequent
murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the
tumultuous period that engulfed the U.S. civil rights movement after King's
death due to intense competition among actors over who would carry King's
mantle. During that tumultuous
period, an influx of radical black Muslim groups had begun to headquarter in
Chicago,
and Trinity sought to recontextualize Christianity
through black theology in order to counter the
influence of radical black Muslim leaders, who taught that it was impossible to
be both black and Christian.
Oprah Winfrey was
a parishioner at the Trinity United
Church of Christ (Chicago).
Jeremiah A.
Wright Jr. is a senior pastor at the
Trinity United Church of Christ (Chicago), and was a member of the African American Religious Leadership
Committee.
African
American Religious Leadership Committee was an advisory group for the 2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign.
Barack
Obama was the candidate for the 2008
Barack Obama presidential campaign, a parishioner at the Trinity United Church of Christ (Chicago),
and an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.
Michelle Obama
was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
R. Eden Martin is
counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and
the president of the Commercial Club of
Chicago.
Newton N. Minow is
a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP,
and a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago, Members Directory A-Z (Past
Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution
(think tank).
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Rebecca M. Blank
was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and is
the chancellor for the University of
Wisconsin-Madison.
Donna E. Shalala
was a fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a chancellor
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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