Mark Hemingway: Does Obama care about religious freedom?

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Does President Obama care about religious freedom? It’s disconcerting that this question needs to be asked of a U.S. president, but prominent observers are sounding the alarm.

“The Obama administration seems to have decided that other policy initiatives — outreach to Muslim governments, obtaining China’s cooperation, advancing gay rights — would be compromised by vigorous advocacy for religious freedom,” Thomas Farr, director of the State Department’s Office of International Religious Freedom under President Clinton, recently wrote in the Washington Post.

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