Raw Story: ‘We live in theocratic times’: Right-wing Christians are claiming religious freedom to ignore any laws they wish
Raw Story reporter Travis Gettys covers PRA’s new research article on the Christian Right’s campaign to redefine religious freedom. Gettys points out that while Americans have famously been granted A concept used by conservative evangelicals and Roman Catholic bishops to justify exempting private individuals, organizations, and institutions from the rule of law, frequently around laws that prohibit discrimination, require recognition of LGBTQ people, or support reproductive healthcare, but often also laws governing labor and pension rights. Learn more before (from military service, medical treatments, etc.), what’s different about recent legal challenges is that the Christian Right—including evangelical, Catholic, and Mormon leaders—is claiming that individuals and for-profit corporations should be allowed to decide for themselves which laws to follow.