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CFTR Renews Calls For Religious Freedom Bill
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Citizens for the Republic Executive Vice President Bill Pascoe – following up on President Obama's "accommodation" requiring insurance companies to provide free services, including the provision of abortion-inducing drugs, to employees of religiously-affiliated institutions – today again urged Congress to enact legislation prohibiting the forced violation of any individual's Constitutional right to the free exercise of religion.
"Barack Obama's 'accommodation' still accommodates nothing but his will to see things done his way," said Pascoe, "and we renew our call on Congress to enact legislation prohibiting such a clear violation of the Constitution's guarantee of the freedom to practice one's own religion as one sees fit.
"Though the House and Senate Republican leadership, and hundreds of Republicans in both Houses of Congress have lined up behind Sen. Roy Blunt's 'Respect for Rights of Conscience Act,' we continue to believe that Yuval Levin of the Ethics and Public Policy Center has a better idea: A simple declarative statement, enacted into law, that reads, 'Congress shall make no law, and the Executive Branch shall make no rule, respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.'
"If that language sounds familiar, it should – it's taken virtually verbatim from the text of the First Amendment to the Constitution, with an Executive Branch kicker thrown in. It's recognition of the sad state of affairs in which we now find ourselves that we feel a need to put Congress on record affirming the language of our revered Constitution, but this is what the Obama Administration has wrought.
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CFTR/Goldman: No One Qualified In Virgina
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Citizens for the Republic Executive Vice President Bill Pascoe and former Virginia Democratic Party Chairman Paul Goldman today released the following statement regarding problems with the Virginia presidential primary ballot:
"Our investigation has uncovered that the ballot access system used for the Virginia Presidential primary to certify candidates is in clear violation of statutory and constitutional requirements. There are currently three standards being used - one for Democrats, and another two differing ones for Republicans - to determine access. The need for one uniform standard, transparent to all, is basic; there is no such thing as a Democratic standard for due process and equal protection of laws, and a differing Republican one.
"Moreover, contrary to the claims of the Democratic and Republican Party chairs, which are taken at face value without review by the public authority, they never verified the signatures of those signing as required by the statute.
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