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October 04, 2011

Roll Call: Bishops’ group: religious freedom under siege

by Ambreen Ali
Roll Call

A new lobbying group being created by the Roman Catholic Church appears to have made the Obama administration its prime target.

In a letter last Thursday explaining the creation of the Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops cited recent decisions by the administration favoring gay and abortion rights as proof that religious freedom is under attack "increasingly and in unprecedented ways."

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