Religious Freedom: What's All the Freedom About

by Ryan Snow

Overview

Who would have thought that late conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia would write a judicial opinion severely debilitating the free exercise of religion and democrats like Chuck Schumer and Ted Kennedy would come to the rescue? This is all true—it happened in the early 1990s—resulting in the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The federal RFRA enjoyed wide bipartisan support in the early 1990s. Yet more recently, various states have tried to enact their own versions of RFRA but have been met with enormous opposition.
What happened to change people's minds about religious freedom? Are religious freedom laws really "license to discriminate"?
This book seeks to add context to the contemporary debates regarding religious freedom, specifically RFRA, and related laws. Religious freedom laws may not be as bad as some want you to think.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940160788470
Publisher:	Covenant Books
Publication date:	10/29/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	851 KB

About the Author

Ryan Snow is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Following a two-year mission in Mongolia, he studied Spanish education (major) and Russian education (minor) at Brigham Young University-Idaho, where he met his wife. He then studied law at SMU Dedman School of Law. His concern with the contemporary criticism of religious freedom led to him writing this book.