In The Realm of Religious Freedom , today’s “On the Square” article, editor Joseph Bottum examines the very worrisome implications of “the administration’s favored formula for speaking about religious liberty.” He notes that the president speaks of the relatively weak “freedom of worship” rather than “freedom of religion,” which has been—and for very good reasons, which he gives—the standard way of speaking of the matter.
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