The Attack on Religious Liberty Is an Attack on All Our Freedoms

A protester holds balloons calling for religious freedom outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on April 28, 2015. Olivier Douliery/Getty Images

Commentary

More than 200 years ago, the Founding Fathers changed the world by embedding the fundamental human right to religious freedom in the U.S. Constitution. That right now hangs by a thread. More precisely, the First Amendment’s “free exercise” of religion clause—that is, the freedom to not just believe but act consistent with one’s faith in the public square—is in dire peril of collapse.