Always On: The ACLU Already Does That!

Posted by Mary Mancini on February 21, 2007 under Uncategorized |

The Always On series illustrates what we’d be talking about on any given day if we were on the air 5 days a week.

If we were on the air today we’d be talking about U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez’s visit to Nashville and his pandering to Southern Baptist leaders.

Gonzalez told a gathering of Southern Baptist leaders in Nashville yesterday that the U.S. will establish a new Religious Freedom Task Force to protect against religious discrimination. The Department of Justice’s “First Freedom Project” will “review religious discrimination complaints, hold seminars to educate religious leaders about how to file complaints and launch a Web site with information on religious liberty laws.”

I had three thoughts when I heard this news: 1) I wonder if the Attorney General would have announced the same task force in front of a group of Muslim leaders; 2) I thought that’s what the ACLU already did; and, 3) Is there a War on the Southern Baptists that I don’t know about?