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Page 1 of 1 | Richard Land
1946 -
Nationality: American
Category: Author
Subcategory: American Author
| Richard D. Land is the president of The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), the public policy entity of the Southern Baptist Convention in the United States, a post he has held since 1988.
In 2001, President George W. Bush appointed Land to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), a federal agency, created by the International Religious Freedom Act of 1988, for the purpose of monitoring the freedom of conscience, thought and religion or belief abroad.
President Bush reappointed Dr. Land for a second term in June 2004. He was subsequently appointed by then Majority Leader Bill Frist in July 2005. Land continues his service to the Commission.
President George W. Bush appointed Land to serve on the Honorary Delegation to accompany him to Jerusalem for the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the State of Israel in May 2008.
Land is associated with the conservative right and often speaks for the conservative position on issues ranging from religion to tax cuts on news reports and as a guest on radio talk shows. |  I'm a graduate of Princeton, and I just want to say you don't have to go to an Ivy League school to be on the Supreme Court. | | Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil. | | It only takes five people in black robes to determine such crucial issues for our country as abortion, pornography, same-sex 'marriage,' and religious liberties. | | I am both stunned and appalled that Pat Robertson would claim to know the mind of God concerning whether particular events... were the judgments of God. | | The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way? | | Social conservatives say who drives the bus. |
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