USCCB Launches Religious Liberty Website

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First Things:

 

Leroy Huizenga

Sunday, November 4, 2012

 

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has launched a new website dedicated to religious liberty, First American Freedom. Why? From the section “Threats to Religious Freedom“:

 

Today, religious freedom is under threat throughout the United States—at all levels of government, federal, state, and local—and abroad.

 

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Note the concerns here are broader than the HHS Mandate and broader than the Catholic Church in America. Whoever wins the election Tuesday, and whatever the courts might do with the Mandate, religious liberty will continue to be a major cultural and political issue going forward, and indeed a perennial issue, as the religious freedom generally enjoyed in America is a historical anomaly, and even within America it has been rough sledding at various points for many groups — Catholics, Mormons, Jews, Quakers, Muslims — depending on time and place.