Comments from Commissioner Diann Rice of the Colorado Civil Rights Commission at a public meeting on July 25, 2014:
“I would also like to reiterate what we said in…the last meeting [concerning Jack Phillips]. Freedom of religion and religion has been used to justify all kinds of discrimination throughout history, whether it be slavery, whether it be the Holocaust… I mean, we can list hundreds of situations where freedom of religion has been used to justify discrimination. And to me it is one of the most despicable pieces of rhetoric that people can use – to use their religion to hurt others.”
Transcript: adfmedia.org/files/MasterpieceHearingTranscript.pdf
Audio: adfmedia.org/files/MasterpieceHearingAudioClip1.pdf
More information available at adfmedia.org/News/PRDetail/8700.
