ADF attorney to debate noted atheist Wednesday
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ADF attorney to debate noted atheist Wednesday
ADF Senior Vice-President Jordan Lorence to participate in debate
on “separation of church and state” against Michael Newdow
WHO: ADF Senior Vice-President and Senior Counsel Jordan Lorence
WHAT: Debate with Michael Newdow at Columbia University
WHEN: Wednesday, March 26, at 8 p.m. EDT
WHERE: Columbia University, 116th St. and Broadway, New York City
NEW YORK — Alliance Defense Fund Senior Counsel Jordan Lorence will participate in a debate Wednesday with Michael Newdow, the well-known atheist who has filed multiple lawsuits to remove the words “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance. The debate will be held at 8 p.m. EDT on the campus of Columbia University.
“The Constitution permits Americans collectively to acknowledge our religious heritage as a nation,” said Lorence. “People who are offended by the idea that religion is important to our society believe the opposite of what the authors of the Constitution believed. The Constitution protects everyone’s right to dissent and to believe what they want, but it does not empower them to silence anyone else from saying ‘Under God’ in the Pledge of Allegiance.”
Lorence has litigated religious liberty and free speech cases across the nation since 1984. In November 1999, he argued the landmark Southworth case before the U.S. Supreme Court, involving the appropriate allocation of mandatory student fees at public universities. Lorence has written opinion pieces for numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, and has appeared as a guest on numerous television programs, including The Today Show, Hannity and Colmes, and The O’Reilly Factor.
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