WASHINGTON (RNS) Amid rising rhetoric and crimes against American Muslims in the wake of recent terror attacks, the White House on Thursday (Dec. 17) broadcast a counter message about religious pluralism.
“There are no second-class faiths in the U.S.A.,” Melissa Rogers, head of the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, said at a forum on American religious pluralism in a building next to the White House.
Maybe not, but it is certainly possible to treat SOME faiths in a “second-class” way. So some school kids in Virginia were directed to write “There is no God but Allah” in a “calligraphy lesson” using Arabic script, but even the word “Christmas” and such secular images as Santa and Christmas trees are banned. So tell me Christianity isn’t being treated in a second-class way.
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