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- February 6, 2015
Religious liberty is more than the freedom to believe. It is also the freedom to let believe. Religious liberty is more than the freedom to evangelize. Religious liberty is also the responsibility to find the common ground even as you evangelize: that religious liberty has to assert the great spirituality of all human beings while
READ MOREThank you for your speech tonight. We’re very impressed by this new Office of International Religious Freedom. Does Canada intend to reach out in a new and unprecedented way for religious freedom? Baird: Certainly one of my main responsibilities is promoting Canadian values; and the Office of International Religious Freedom will assist all of our
READ MOREThe controversy over the so-called Ground Zero mosque in New York City in some ways demonstrates a failure of leadership. But before we identify those failures, let us review the situation more broadly. Muslims are currently worshipping at a building that formerly housed a coat manufacturer. The facility is a couple of long blocks away
READ MOREOne of the great puzzles to foreign observers of the U.S. political and religious scene is how an overtly religious political movement can flourish in a country, which, more than any other Western nation, has maintained clear blue water between church and state and has an unequivocal, even dogmatic, attachment to the principle of religious
READ MOREJohn Locke was a pioneer for toleration. Today we know that toleration can be only a halfway house to real religious freedom. Yet his views were central to establishing a hitherto-unknown religious freedom. His mature view on toleration in A Letter Concerning Toleration was written at the end of a century or more of religious
READ MOREToday there is a national political leader who is deliberately and strategically draping his political aspirations in religious imagery in ways that are, frankly, sacrilegious. He has implied that his quest for power has the stamp of divine approval. His language, at times, is messianic. As national elections approach, he’s exploiting emotionally powerful tropes about
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