Senate panel hears testimony about U.S. religious intolerance

Published: 2004-06-10

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- A subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony June 8 describing actions of religious intolerance in the United States. Among those testifying at the hearing were a Muslim girl who had been suspended from school for wearing a head covering, as required by her Islamic faith, and a Jewish man who was harassed after complaining about the recitation of the Lord's Prayer to begin a school board meeting. Also testifying was former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who was removed from office after he refused to remove a granite monument to the Ten Commandments he had installed inside the Alabama Supreme Court building. The hearing was titled "Beyond the Pledge of Allegiance: Hostility to Religious Expression in the Public Square."

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