Ambassador Sam Brownback delivers a speech about religious freedown during the 25th annual International Law and Religion Symposium at in Salt Lake City on Monday, Oct. 8, 2018. Qiling Wang, Deseret News (courtesy) It shouldn’t sound as difficult as it does. During his recent visit to Provo, Utah to speak to the International Law and Religious Symposium at Brigham Young University, Sam Brownback seemed to wonder why the plight of people being persecuted, tortured and killed worldwide for their beliefs hasn’t generated more outrage in the United States. Human trafficking, after all, has developed a grass-roots synergy in recent years that raised awareness, changed laws and put a spotlight on problems worldwide. But religious freedom? “This needs a movement on college campuses,” said Brownback, a former senator and governor who now is President Trump’s ambassador at-large for international religious freedom. “Bring a group of people of faith or no faith together and say we will stand for religious freedom.” Maybe on some campuses, such as BYU, but it sounds a bit far-fetched for many others. Why is that? Because it’s hard to objectively see human suffering, or much of anything else for that matter, when politics gets in the […]
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