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‹ Order of Business Religious freedom and a silenced priest
Summary
Senator Norris praises President Obama’s reference to gay people and protests the silencing and threatened excommunication of an Irish priest.
I was very taken by the fact that President Obama, for the first time, used the word "gay" in an inaugural speech. He also spoke about gay marriage. It is significant that an Irish priest has been silenced-----
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-----and is about to be excommunicated for daring to raise questions. All we hear about is respectful dialogue. However, the agents of a curious state which, like the point in geometry, has a location but no dimension are attempting to force him, as happened during the Inquisition, to recant and violate his own conscience. How about that for bullying?