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April 13, 2015

The Book of Ruth, Catholic Weddings, and the RFRA

The way to protect religious liberty.

When Maureen Mullarkey asked a Jewish jeweler to engrave a Hebrew verse from the biblical book of Ruth (“whither thou goest . . .”) on her wedding ring, he declined on the grounds that this particular verse was inappropriate for two Gentiles. Opponents of Indiana’s version of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), and similar laws, would take away his right to do so, as Mullarkey writes:

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