When James Madison sat down to write the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights, he opened it by noting that Congress “shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or the free exercise thereof …”

Madison thereby enshrined in America’s fundamental law the distinction between freedom of religious belief and freedom of religious practice. The former is all but meaningless unless protected by the latter.

Sarah Stonestreet points in the following video to this vital distinction in her three points regarding the often-heard maxim that nobody should impose their religion on anybody else. Somehow in contemporary America, each individual’s right to religious practice has been redefined to mean one person’s imposition of his or her religious beliefs on everybody else’s practice:

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