The Evolution of Religious-Freedom Law in America – The Atlantic

Source: The Evolution of Religious-Freedom Law in America – The Atlantic

How efforts to bolster religious liberty set off a chain of unintended consequences—transforming the rights of individual conscience into a bulwark of secular wealth and ecclesiastical power.

The new claim of free exercise—one which will be heard more and more—is not for accommodation, or even exemption, from the law; it is for immunity. It is for, in essence, the right to secede from civil society.