Religious Liberty commissioners met for the final scheduled meeting and urged that the commission continue to “persevere in monitoring” threats to religious liberty.
Chair Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Vice Chair Ben Carson hosted the April 13 meeting with members Ryan Anderson; Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota; and Allyson Ho among others on the panel that was created by President Donald Trump to advocate for freedom of religious belief.
They discussed recommendations to Trump on how to protect religious freedom and reflected on the past year of sessions. While the hearing was the last scheduled meeting, many proposed that it continue to meet in some capacity as “threats to religious freedom both at home and abroad are not disappearing anytime soon,” Bishop Barron said.
Reiterating a statement he said at the first hearing, Bishop Barron said: “The principal enemy of religious liberty in our country is what I call the ideology of self-invention.”
“This is the philosophical program that denies the objectivity of moral values and the stability of human nature and which proposes consequently that individual choice alone is the determiner of purpose and meaning,” he said.
“This dictatorship of relativism has taken hold in many of
