Cause for Optimism: Religious Freedom in America

Recent pandemic and state shutdowns have shone a spotlight on why religious freedom matters.
Cause for Optimism: Religious Freedom in America
Kelly Shackelford is President and CEO of First Liberty Institute, the nation's top firm for defending religious freedom. First Liberty Institute
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As the nation becomes a little less religious year after year, religious freedom has also increasingly come under attack, though sometimes quietly in the background. But the recent pandemic and state shutdowns have shone a spotlight on why it matters.

People started to see their liberties taken away, and wondered whether a shop owner had any right to protest an order that her business close, or why a parent could be handcuffed for taking his child to a park.

Catherine Yang
Catherine Yang
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Catherine Yang has been with The Epoch Times in New York since 2008. She also launched and previously served as chief editor of American Essence magazine and Epoch Health.
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