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April 21, 2015

Indiana, Gay Marriage, and James Madison’s Ideal of Religious Freedom

"No one ought to be compelled to affirm as true a religious tenet he took to be false."

Yuval Levin argues that the particular liberty being protected by Indiana’s version of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act isn’t the First Amendment’s guarantee of free exercise of religion; it’s the Amendment’s prohibition of the establishment of a church by the state. Levin explains why James Madison added the latter guarantee to the Amendment, and why it applies here:

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