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October 9, 2026

The Bipartisan Turn against Religious Freedom

The longtime American consensus might be fraying.

“No provision in our constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority,” said Thomas Jefferson to a group of Connecticut Methodists. While the American left in the past few decades has had few qualms about encroaching on religious freedom, Mark Tooley writes that hostility to religious freedom is becoming increasingly mainstream on the Christian right well:

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