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The Left’s Plot to Destroy Freedom of Religion

The Left’s Plot to Destroy Freedom of Religion
Members of the Little Sisters of the Poor stand outside the Supreme Court following oral arguments in seven cases dealing with religious organizations that want to ban contraceptives from their health insurance policies on religious grounds in Washington on March 23, 2016. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
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Commentary
Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy once wrote that freedom of religion has “a double aspect—freedom of thought and action.” In other words, to be truly religiously free, one must not only be free to believe, but act in the public square consistent with those beliefs.
Wesley J. Smith
Wesley J. Smith
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Award-winning author Wesley J. Smith is host of the Humanize Podcast (Humanize.today), chairman of the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism and a consultant to the Patients Rights Council. His latest book is “Culture of Death: The Age of ‘Do Harm’ Medicine.”
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