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“A right for one is a right for another and a responsibility for all.”

| October 12, 2012 - 5:58 pm

Tags: 112th Congress, AAMLC, African American Ministers Leadership Council, American Muslims, Bill Moyers, Charles Haynes, First Amendment Center, Gerald Ford, Hofstra University, Hussein Rashid, Interfaith Alliance, Islam, Islamophobia, Jimmy Carter, Muslim Americans, Muslims, New Evangelical Project for the Common Good, Norman Lear, Peter Montgomery, Policy Corner, public policy, Religion Dispatches, Religious Freedom Education Project, Richard Cizik, Warren Burger, Welton Gaddy, William Rehnquist, Williamsburg Charter

In 1988, as Founding Chairman of People For the American Way, Norman Lear was among the cosigners of the Williamsburg Charter, “written and published expressly to address the dilemmas, challenges, and opportunities posed by religious liberty in American public life.”

Lear and others, including Presidents Carter and Ford and Chief Justices Rehnquist and Burger, agreed that “a right for one is a right for another and a responsibility for all.”

That is the spirit in which faith leaders and religious liberty advocates, including PFAW Foundation and the African American Ministers Leadership Council, led by the First Amendment Center and Interfaith Alliance, have come together in 2012 to answer the question, “What is the truth about American Muslims?”