By BJC Staff Reports
BJC Executive Director Brent Walker was one of 50 leaders who signed a letter asserting that anti-Muslim rhetoric is a threat to the foundations of American democracy and to the religious freedom of all Americans.
The letter ran as an advertisement in the Washington Post on Dec. 21, and it calls elected officials and the American public to stand for freedom.
“Our religious principles teach us to love and respect each other, and our civic responsibility demands that we take a public stand against this gross injustice happening before our eyes today,” the letter states.
“As persons of faith and as Americans, we deeply value our own freedom of religion in this country and the religious freedom of others.”
Other signatories include Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, author Brian McLaren, Rev. Jim Wallis of Sojourners, Rev. Dr. Roy Medley of American Baptist Churches USA, Bishop Warren Brown Jr. of the United Methodist Church, Imam Mohamed Magid of the ADAMS Center, Rabbi Jack Moline of Interfaith Alliance, Rev. Gradye Parsons of the Presbyterian Church USA, Ambassador John Loeb Jr., Deborah Lauter of the Anti-Defamation League, and Rabbi Jonah Pesner of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism.
The effort was a collaboration between The Shoulder to Shoulder Campaign and the Aspen Institute’s Justice and Society Program.
From the January 2016 Report from the Capital. Click here to read the next story.
