Reclaiming Religious Liberty From Distortion

Reclaiming Religious Liberty from Distortion

Government commissions come and go. Most deliver their reports to polite applause and prompt obscurity. But the Religious Liberty Commission that recently presented its draft report to President Donald Trump deserves a look that extends well beyond the Oval Office. At stake is something fundamental to the American character: our distinctive religious pluralism and the constitutional architecture...

Standing Religious Liberty on its Head

A commission has adopted a technique George Orwell identified in his 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language” — using reassuring words to make policies that might otherwise face resistance seem natural, inevitable, even benevolent. The wall of separation becomes adversarial, divisive, hostile to cooperation. The bridge becomes open, connecting, positive.