The Politics of Religious Freedom
Kelefah Sanneh of The New Yorker discusses the evolution and selective invocation of arguments for expanded “religious freedom.” He writes, “There is something unsettling about a conception of religious freedom that grants some people exemption from laws that others must obey. Much of the time, opinions about exemption from a particular law mirror the politics of the moment … But the idea is too big, and too nebulous, to claim any political group as its permanent ally.”