Religious Freedom Day: An Important History, Given the Current Hostility

NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER | COMMENTARY

By: Andrea M. Picciotti-Bayer 

As our current government leaders move to pass the so-called Equality Act, a necessary lesson on what religious freedom in the United States really means and how we must combat the current war being waged upon it.

In addition to being the day in which we celebrate the birthday of civil-rights leader and Baptist minister Martin Luther King Jr., this Monday, Jan. 16, is National Religious Freedom Day. 

And this year, shockingly, it may not be a celebration of this long-standing civil liberty that lies at the heart of the identity of the United States. Thanks to the Biden administration, it threatens to become merely symbolic – or worse: a hollow joke. 

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Religious Freedom Day: An Important History, Given the Current Hostility