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January 30, 2024

Don’t Reduce Religious Freedom to Freedom of Worship

Kamala Harris’s poor choice of words.

In a public appearance in Wisconsin last week, Vice-President Kamala Harris spoke about the various freedoms Americans cherish, among them “freedom of worship”—a phrase used by Presidents Biden and Obama as well. This is certainly an important right, but, as Timothy Carney observes, the First Amendment guarantee of the “free exercise of religion” refers to something much broader:

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