Congratulations to Melissa Rogers who was awarded the Abner McCall Religious Liberty Award by the Baylor Alumni Association on Saturday, December 22. My dad and I were in attendance for the event.
From BAA:
About a hundred people gathered at the Hughes-Dillard Alumni Center on Saturday, December 19, to celebrate the accomplishments of two impressive alumni. Family, friends, and Baylor supporters attended a luncheon to honor Melissa Rogers ’88 with the McCall Religious Liberty Award…
In her comments to the crowd, Rogers said, “For a lawyer who is a Baylor graduate to receive an award in Abner McCall’s name is just an unbelievable honor.”
Rogers is the director of Wake Forest University Divinity School’s Center for Religion and Public Affairs and as a nonresident senior fellow within the Governance Program of The Brookings Institution.
“I do not consider myself in the company of previous recipients—such as James Dunn and Ed Gaustad,” she added. “I consider this a time of inspiration and a goad to try to carry the torch of religious liberty as ably as they did and do.”
The snippet above does not mention that President Obama appointed Melissa Rogers to his Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
In an event sponsored by The Brookings Institution and moderated by senior fellow E.J. Dionne, a joint statement concerning religious expression in the United States will be unveiled tomorrow by a diverse group of religious and secular leaders including Melissa Rogers. Here’s a description of the statement and event:
This document does not focus on what the law should be, but rather what the law is today. The joint statement seeks to provide accessible and useful information for Americans about this area of law, and enrich the conversation surrounding religious liberties.
Signatories will discuss current legal protections of religious expressions, including issues such as religion and politics; religious gatherings on government property; chaplains in legislative bodies, prisons and the military; and religion in the workplace. They also will discuss the history and future of common-ground projects in the religious freedom field.
The event will feature a diverse group of panelists/presenters including Charles Haynes of the First Amendment Center, Colby May of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), Marc Stern of the American Jewish Congress and Melissa Rogers of Wake Forest University.
I will post a link to and a snippet from the joint statement once it is online.
After a holiday sabbatical during which much writing and research was done, thebigdaddyweave will again feature posts on a more regular basis.
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