American Catholic, Baptist leaders join in call for civil debate on religious liberty
April 06, 2015
Catholic and Baptist leaders have joined in a statement calling for a serious national discussion of religious liberty in the US.
Two Catholic archbishops, two spokesmen for the Southern Baptist Convention, and a prominent Catholic scholar addressed their statement to the current controversy over public acceptance of homosexuality. They observed: “When basic moral convictions and historic religious wisdom rooted in experience are deemed ‘discrimination,’ our ability to achieve civic harmony, or even to reason clearly, is impossible.”
The statement was signed by Archbishops Charles Chaput of Philadelphia and William Lori of Baltimore; Rev. Albert Mohler, Jr., the president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; Russell Moore, the president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission for the Southern Baptist Convention; and Robert George of Princeton University.
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