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July 21, 2020

Why There’s No Inconsistency in the Supreme Court’s Recent Affirmations of Religious Liberty

To the believer, the free exercise of religion is a pervasive thing—an identity, not just an idea.

In its recent session, the Supreme Court issued two decisions hailed widely by religious-liberty advocates: one upholds parents’ rights to use school vouchers to send their children to religious schools; the other limits the government’s ability to interfere with religious schools’ hiring and firing decisions. In the view of some liberal commentators, there is an inherent contradiction between protecting religious institutions from government interference and requiring that they be eligible for public funds. Not so, argues Dan McLaughlin:

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