UNITED STATES
Religion News Service
By Emily McFarlan Miller
(RNS) President Trump is reportedly considering naming former Baylor University President Ken Starr to head the State Department’s Office of International Religious Freedom.
The ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom monitors religious persecution and discrimination worldwide and develops programs to promote religious freedom, according to the State Department website.
The reports about possible picks for the position come a week after more than 700 religious leaders, scholars and human rights advocates signed a letter to President Trump, coordinated by the 21st Century Wilberforce Initiative, that urges him to name an ambassador-at-large in the first 100 days of his presidency. …
Starr is best known for his work investigating President Bill Clinton’s extramarital relationship with Monica Lewinsky that led to Clinton’s impeachment. The Baylor Board of Regents removed Starr as president last year after an investigation into his mishandling of reports of sexual assault at the private Baptist university in Waco, Texas. He and the university later announced a mutual separation.
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