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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (10695)	10/25/2009 4:18:07 PM
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blasphemy laws Perhaps in an effort to rehabilitate the United States’ image? in the Muslim world, the Obama administration has joined? a U.N. effort to restrict religious speech. This country should never sacrifice freedom of expression on the altar of religion. By Jonathan Turley Around the world, free speech is being sacrificed on the altar of religion. Whether defined as hate speech, discrimination or simple blasphemy, governments are declaring unlimited free speech as the enemy of freedom of religion. This growing movement has reached the United Nations, where religiously conservative countries received a boost in their campaign to pass an international blasphemy law. It came from the most unlikely of places: the United States. While attracting surprisingly little attention, the Obama administration supported the effort of largely Muslim nations in the U.N. Human Rights Council to recognize exceptions to free speech for any "negative racial and religious stereotyping."... blogs.usatoday.com ...I continue to be confused why the Left in this country is so absolutely hostile to Baptists in Alabama but are so deferential to Muslims in Saudi Arabia. Is it simply because one group makes credible threats of violence while the other does not? coyoteblog.com

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