The Trinity Forum addressed vital concerns in defending religious liberty today at home and abroad in a panel discussion on August 26. Cherie Harder, Trinity Forum President, discussed the issues with Kristina Arriaga, for many years Executive Director of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, and Stanley Carlson-Thies, founder and Director of the Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance.
Why is religious liberty important or needed? Harder said that “in protecting religious liberty, the government respects its own limitations and its inability to dictate answers to ultimate questions, and acknowledges that the human conscience answers to a higher authority than the state. It’s also the most basic requirement of any free society.” She acknowledged that religious freedom does have limitations. The challenge to religious freedom in our day has been both from secularism and from accommodating the many different religious viewpoints with religious liberty claims. But recently,…
