WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Is Standing for Religious Freedom Just a Way to Protect Privilege?
Religious freedom must be for everybody or it doesn’t work for anybody. (Screenshot from YouTube).
(FIVE-MINUTE VIEWING) — If you’ve worked on Capitol Hill very long at all, you’ve realized that what some people say when asked why they are talking to their elected representatives isn’t their actual motivation.
So what about people lobbying on the Hill to protect religious freedom? Are their motivations in proclaiming the importance of religious freedom sincere? We can’t know the hearts of everybody we encounter, of course, but it’s not uncommon to hear these days claims that defenders of religious freedom historically were actually just claiming such liberty for themselves.
But such claims betray a profound ignorance of the influence of Christianity from its earliest days, especially in terms of its impact on the Roman Empire. In the following 5:11 video — the latest in the Colson Center’s superb “What Would You Say” series — facts are presented that you may never have previously heard: