Ambassador Sam Brownback

IRD Cheers Sam Brownback Nomination as Religious Freedom Ambassador

on July 27, 2017

Institute on Religion & Democracy Press Release
July 27, 2017
Contact: Jeff Walton Office: 202-682-4131, Cell: 202-413-5639, E-mail: jwalton@TheIRD.org

“The President could not have chosen a fiercer defender of the persecuted and oppressed, or a more humble, gentle servant to the persecuted and oppressed.”
– IRD Religious Liberty Director Faith J.H. McDonnell

Washington, DC—President Donald Trump announced Wednesday his nomination of Kansas Governor Sam Brownback to serve as the State Department’s Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom. Brownback departed the U.S. Senate to become governor in 2011 after serving as senator from Kansas for 15 years, and a year as U.S. Representative before that.

IRD Religious Liberty Director Faith J.H. McDonnell commented:

“Brownback left a hole in Capitol Hill when he departed. He was one of the key defenders of the persecuted and oppressed around the world: a strong advocate for international religious freedom, for the marginalized people in Sudan, for human rights in North Korea and China, for rescuing victims of sex-trafficking, for the unborn, and for so many more issues that either gets you loved or hated.

“The appointment of Governor Brownback as the Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom is something for which every person who cares about religious freedom around the world — for those of any faith and of no faith — should be grateful to President Trump for this appointment. He could not have chosen a fiercer defender of the persecuted and oppressed, or a more humble, gentle servant to the persecuted and oppressed.

“Brownback is neither reluctant nor fearful. He will bring conviction and confidence into his position as Ambassador-at-Large. He will confront the evil that harms people of faith, and he will speak with candor to President Trump and others in his Administration.”

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  1. Comment by Ted R. Weiland on July 28, 2017 at 7:49 pm

    Like a moth to a flame, Christians are intent on employing the genesis of their problems as the solution. In this instance, the First Commandment violating First Amendment.

    Religious Freedom and Christian Liberty are not the same thing. They are, in fact, hostile to each other. The former is born of the First Amendment. The latter is born of the First Commandment. In 1789, the First Commandment and Christian Liberty were formally sacrificed on the altar of the First Amendment and Religious Freedom. It’s the Klein’s Christian liberty that’s being attacked as a consequence of the First Amendment’s provision for an alleged religious freedom for all.

    It’s one thing to allow for individual freedom of conscience and private choice of gods, something impossible to legislate for or against. It’s another matter altogether for government to enable any and all religions to proliferate through the land and evangelize our posterity to false gods. This is what the First Amendment legitimizes. It is an unequivocal violation of the First Commandment and the polar opposite of the following First Commandment statute:

    ‘[Y]e shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves. For thou shall worship no other god: for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God: Lest thou … go a whoring after their gods….’ (Exodus 34:13-15)….”

    It’s the First Amendment that the sodomites, lesbians, and atheists hang their hats on and that they’ve been able to utilize for their cause. It’s likewise the First Amendment that so many Christians hang their hat on as if there’s something intrinsically Christian about it when, in fact, it is entirely antithetical to the Bible. It’s thus suicide for Christians to appeal to the First Amendment in any fashion whatsoever.

    For more, see online Chapter 11 “Amendment 1: Government-Sanctioned Polytheism” of “Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective” at http://www.bibleversusconstitution.org/BlvcOnline/biblelaw-constitutionalism-pt11.html.

    Then find out how much you really know about the Constitution as compared to the Bible. Take our 10-question Constitution Survey in the right-hand sidebar and receive a complimentary copy of a book that examines the Constitution by the Bible.

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