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August 10, 2022 49 mins

We speak today about the relationship between the human right to life and the right to religious freedom. 

Our freedoms of thought, conscience, and religion are natural and interdependent rights, and when rightly understood, they serve to elevate our conception of the meaning and purpose of human life—the goods we recognize that are a part of the created order, and what this created order suggests about our origins and our destiny.

The human right to life is the first and more fundamental of all human rights, but the human right to religious freedom matters, too, because to be human is to pursue the truth.

Today we speak with Amb. Sam Brownback, who served most recently as the United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom and continues to work with coalitions around the globe to promote and protect the right to religious liberty.  He is currently serving as a fellow at the Center for Religous Studies at The Catholic University of America.

Before his appointment as U.S. Ambassador, Brownback previously served as a U.S. Senator and the 26th Governor of Kansas. Amb. Brownback is a prolific attorney, politician and diplomat and we speak with him about the importance of religous liberty, the human right to life, and what faith means to him personally.

Amb. Sam Brownback on Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Brownback

National Committee for Religious Freedom
https://thencrf.org/

International Religious Freedom Summit (IRF)
https://irfsummit.org/

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