Becket Says… Religious Freedom Survives Culture Wars
By DEACON MIKE MANNO, JD Readers of this column have come across the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty numerous times during the past few years. Becket is a leading public interest legal and educational organization dedicated to protect the free expression of all faiths. It has been instrumental in numerous legal battles, including representation of the Little Sisters of the Poor in the ongoing legal battle over whether or not the nuns can be forced to provide contraceptives and abortifacients for their employees. Late last month Becket released the results of its first religious freedom index to track trends on American views of religious freedom. It is being used to measure trends in six dimensions of religious freedom. It is…Continue Reading