Alternet: Religious Freedom Is a Progressive Value and a Cornerstone of Our Democracy
The idea that people’s religious views should be neither an advantage or a disadvantage under the law. Learn more is a central issue of our time.
It has figured prominently in recent decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court. It was a major theme of the presidential election of 2016. And it has been a major theme of the A movement that emerged in the 1970s encompassing a wide swath of conservative Catholicism and Protestant evangelicalism. Learn more in both its evangelical protestant and Catholic expressions, as part of an effort to enact their religious and political agenda.
— Frederick Clarkson