In Cult Complex , today’s second “On the Square” article, Ashley Samelson McGuire of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty gives a survey of the ways in which governments try to limit religious freedom by redefining religions as cults or associations or ideologies. France, for example, does this, and some Americans once tried to do it to Catholics. This is, she writes, something to know about and oppose.
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