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Former Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the former Attorney General of the United States who is again running for his old seat in the U.S. Senate, told Breitbart News exclusively on Wednesday that there is an “unprecedented” assault on religious freedom that leftist and atheist groups are waging against people of faith all across the country.

Sessions’ comments come in response to a letter from the atheist foundation led by former President Ronald Reagan’s son Ron Reagan—who is nothing like his father was when it comes to politics—who are condemning Sessions for standing up for religious freedom.

The letter – which comes as the same atheist group, the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), ran a television ad during Tuesday evening’s Democrat presidential debate promoting atheism and attacking religion – goes after Sessions for criticizing the group in a local news interview in Alabama, where he was standing up for the religious freedom rights of 26 football players to be voluntarily baptized at Reeltown High School at the school’s Notasulga, Alabama, Nix-Webster-O’Neal Stadium in November.

After the baptism at the school football stadium, FFRF attacked the school and its head football coach Matt Johnson. Sessions conducted an interview with local Alabama publication YellowHammer Politics defending their religious freedom from FFRF. That infuriated FFRF, which fired back with a letter released by Sessions this week.

Sessions says this is a part of the group’s efforts to “intimidate” people of faith.

“This group and others over the years have used threatening letters and threats of lawsuits to intimidate and back public institutions including schools away from protecting constitutional rights of Americans and students,” Sessions told Breitbart News in an interview on Wednesday afternoon. “It has been too successful. It needs to end. Americans have a right to express themselves and speak on campuses and they have a right to speak religious thoughts on campuses. These people contend that the state and government is trying to force religion down people’s throats, but in fact they want the state, the law enforcement powers of government, to be used to silence constitutionally-protected religious speech. It’s a big matter. They have fought the Department of Justice since I became Attorney General as we tried to protect legitimate religious expression. It’s more than expression really. The Constitution protects the right of every American to freely exercise their religion. That’s being violated too much today. It’s time to have this discussion out in the open and the public to make sure that every governmental institution protects free speech and the free exercise of religion.”

Sessions also said that the left—groups including FFRF and others like it—are engaged in an “unprecedented” assault on religious liberty.

“It is unprecedented,” Sessions told Breitbart News. “The FFRF proudly declares themselves to be an atheist group and they are plainly hostile to people of faith. They have incorrectly and improperly and unlawfully sought to silence people of faith. The First Amendment guarantees every American the right to freely exercise their religion. It’s a big deal and it’s time for the American people to understand what their rights are, and it’s time for government officials to understand they don’t have to follow the advice of these militant atheists.”

(Excerpt from Breitbart. Article by Matthew Boyle.)

 

 

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AUDREY LYNN VANDERLINDE
January 21, 2020

Dear father God..we know that the enemy knows his time is short..so we will face many persecutions..but not our will..your will be done! We worship you Jesus our Savior..king of kings..and our lives belong to you! Be with Sessions as he goes to get back his chair..we give this all to you! In the name of Yeshuah the messiah..Jesus!

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Ken Budz
January 19, 2020

Lord please protect those who love You for Your name’s sake. Father too many too often act too inappropriately and want to eliminate the rights and freedoms of others. Help us to help each other live how You would want us to live. Amen.

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    Steve
    January 21, 2020

    Hebrews 10:35–39 (NASB95): Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, (Gk. freedom of speech) which has a great reward.
    36 For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.
    37 For yet in a very little while,
    He who is coming will come, and will not delay.
    38 But My righteous one shall live by faith;
    And if he shrinks back, My soul has no pleasure in him.
    39 But we are not of those who shrink back…
    Father we ask Your favor on Jeff Sessions for taking this stand. We pray You will move through Your kindness to bring to repentance those who oppose you, yet if they harden their hearts against You then expose them for what they are, servants of satan and in bondage to sin, and disarm them in their assault on our freedoms. Give us boldness of speech and wisdom in the use of it for You. In Jesus’ Name, amen!

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